Whose school is it? : women, children, memory, and practice in the city / Rhoda H. Halperin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halperin, Rhoda H.

Series:

Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 12.

Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban schools--Ohio--Cincinnati--Case studies.

Urban schools.

Multicultural education--Ohio--Cincinnati--Case studies.

Multicultural education.

Community and school--Ohio--Cincinnati--Case studies.

Community and school.

East End Community Heritage School (Cincinnati, Ohio).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 217 pages) : maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whose School Is It?: Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City is a success story with roadblocks, crashes, and detours. Rhoda Halperin uses feminist theorist and activist Gloria Anzaldúa's ideas about borderlands created by colliding cultures to deconstruct the creation and advancement of a public community charter school in a diverse, long-lived urban neighborhood on the Ohio River. Class, race, and gender mix with age, local knowledge, and place authenticity to create a page-turning story of grit, humor, and sheer stubbornness. The school has grown and flourished in the face of daunting market forces, class discrimination, and an increasingly unfavorable national climate for charter schools. Borderlands are tense spaces. The school is a microcosm of the global city. Many theoretical strands converge in this book—feminist theory, ideas about globalization, class analysis, and accessible narrative writing—to present some new approaches in urban anthropology. The book is multi-voiced and nuanced in ways that provide authenticity and texture to the real circumstances of urban lives. At the same time, identities are threatened as community practices clash with rules and regulations imposed by outsiders. Since it is based on fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in the community and the city, Whose School Is It? brings unique long-term perspectives on continuities and disjunctures in cities. Halperin's work as researcher and advocate also provides insider perspectives that are rare in the literature of urban anthropology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

MAPS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PROLOGUE

Part one CREATION Writing Urban Memory

One LITERACY, SCHOOL, AND IDENTITY IN AN URBAN, WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITY

Two FOUNDING MOTHERS AND THE CREATION OF THE CHARTER

Three THE POLITICS OF THE CHARTER AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE

Four HIRING STAFF Teachers, Kin, and an Instructional Leader

Part two DETERRITORIALIZATION

Five OPENING THE SCHOOL Whose School Is It?

Six KIDS IN THE URBAN BORDERLAND A Collage

Seven CLASHING PHILOSOPHIES, CLASHING PRACTICES Follow the Leader versus Ring around the Rosie

Eight ACADEMIC BORDERLANDS MICROgirls, a Math Club for Girls with Stephanie Jones

Nine MOMENTS Collaboration and Consensus in the Borderland

Part three RETERRITORIALIZATION

Ten NEGOTIATING THE BORDERLAND

Eleven DETERRITORIALIZATION, CRISIS MANAGEMENT, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF RETERRITORIALIZATION with Lionel Brown and Roberta Lee

Twelve BORDERLANDS, FACTIONS, AND INVERTED IMAGINED COMMUNITIES

Thirteen TAKING BACK THE SCHOOL

Fourteen TRANSFORMING AND CYCLING BORDERLANDS OF COMMUNITY, CULTURE, AND CLASS with Holly Winwood, Janice Glaspie, and Lionel Brown

EPILOGUE Reinventing Urban Memory

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-212) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79643-9

OCLC:

70152785