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Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform / by B. Franklin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Barry M.
- Series:
- Secondary Education in a Changing World, 2945-6347
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Curricula.
- Education.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Geology.
- Educational sociology.
- International education.
- Comparative education.
- Curriculum Studies.
- Educational Philosophy.
- Sociology of Education.
- International and Comparative Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Curriculum Studies.
- Educational Philosophy.
- Geology.
- Sociology of Education.
- International and Comparative Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgment; List of Abbreviations; 1 Community and Curriculum: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Urban School Reform; 2 Community Conflict and Compensatory Education in New York City: More Effective Schools and the Clinic for Learning; 3 Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit: The Northern High School Walkout; 4 Race and Community in a Black Led City: The Case of Detroit and the Mayoral Takeover of the Board of Education; 5 Educational Partnerships, Urban School Reform, and the Building of Community
- 6 Educational Partnerships and Community: Education Action Zones and ""Third Way"" Educational Reform in Britain7 Smaller Learning Communities and the Reorganization of the Comprehensive High School; Epilogue: Community in a Cosmopolitan World; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612908927
- 9781349377176
- 1349377171
- 9781282908925
- 1282908928
- 9780230105744
- 0230105742
- OCLC:
- 649380994
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