Toxic Schools : High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam / Bowen Paulle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paulle, Bowen, Author.

Series:

Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Urban--Social aspects.

Low-income high school students--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Low-income high school students--New York (State)--New York.

School violence.

Urban schools--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Urban schools--New York (State)--New York.

Local Subjects:

Education, Urban--Social aspects.

Low-income high school students--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Low-income high school students--New York (State)--New York.

School violence.

Urban schools--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Urban schools--New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society-and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe non-selective city schools-segregated, unequal, violent-none comes close to characterizing their systemic dysfunction in high-poverty neighborhoods. The most accurate word is toxic. When Bowen Paulle speaks of toxicity, he speaks of educational worlds dominated by intimidation and anxiety, by ambivalence, degradation, and shame. Based on six years of teaching and research in the South Bronx and in Southeast Amsterdam, Toxic Schools is the first fully participatory ethnographic study of its kind and a searing examination of daily life in two radically different settings. What these schools have in common, however, are not the predictable ideas about race and educational achievement but the tragically similar habituated stress responses of students forced to endure the experience of constant vulnerability. From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Paulle paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in real time, with the chronic stress, peer group dynamics, and subtle power politics of urban educational spaces in the perpetual shadow of aggression.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

One. Introduction: Getting Situated

Two. Recognizing the Real, Restructuring the Game

Three. Episodic Violence, Perpetual Threats

Four. Exile and Commitment

Five. Survival of the Nurtured

Six. The Tipping of Classrooms, Teachers Left Behind

Seven. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Research Methods and the Evolution of Ideas

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226066554

022606655X

OCLC:

857967721