Download or read book An Ethnographic Study of an Urban High School written by Doris Marie Jorde and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School written by Patrick J. McQuillan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on issues of equity and opportunity in one urban high school, the book reveals how prominent American cultural values--in particular, students', teachers', and administrators' conceptions of educational opportunity--undermined the education that students received.
Download or read book Disciplining Urban Youth An Ethnographic Study of a Bronx High School written by Kathleen Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, public school discipline policies have taken a punitive turn, disproportionately impacting students of color and creating a link between certain schools and the criminal justice system. This dissertation details a year-long ethnographic study of disciplinary practices---including zero tolerance, the use of a high-tech security apparatus, and order maintenance-style policing---in an urban high school. Through the use of participant observation and ethnographic interviewing, the researcher examined the lived experience of schooling and how students and school personnel made sense of and negotiated disciplinary practices. Drawing on critical educational theories, theories of crime and punishment, and related empirical data, the researcher also examined how school discipline policies are shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces. Findings suggest that current disciplinary practices help to create a culture of penal control inside the school. Within the new disciplinary paradigm, students' non-criminal behaviors were often subjected to criminal procedural level strategies, arrests, and summonses to criminal court. As penal management became the implicit mission, attention appeared to be deflected from students' educational needs, and the causes of disruption and violence were not sufficiently addressed. Findings also revealed that students found creative, albeit sometimes destructive, ways to preserve valued identities and contest policies. Finally, findings suggest that the school has assumed a key role in the management of an educationally and economically marginalized group---poor and working class urban youth of color.
Download or read book Posin to be Chosen written by Richard Anthony Marotto and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban High Schools written by Annette B. Hemmings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary overview introduces readers to the historical, sociological, anthropological, and political foundations of urban public secondary schooling and to possibilities for reform. Focused on critical and problematic elements, the text provides a comprehensive description and analyses of urban public high schooling through different yet intertwined disciplinary lenses. Students and researchers seeking to inform their work with urban high schools from social, cultural, and political perspectives will find the theoretical frameworks and practical applications useful in their own studies of, or initiatives related to, urban public high schools. Each chapter includes concept boxes with synopses of key ideas, summations, and discussion questions.
Download or read book Transforming a Troubled School written by Marilyn R. Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Ethnographic Study of Adolescent Pregnancy in an Urban High School written by Kathryn G. Herr and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Schools and English Language Education in Late Modern China written by Miguel Perez-Milans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2014 BAAL Book Prize This book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education. It examines the implications of the implementation of reforms in English language education for experimental-urban schools in the People’s Republic of China. Pérez-Milans sheds light on how national, linguistic, and cultural ideologies linked to modernization are being institutionally (re)produced, legitimated, and inter-personally negotiated through everyday practice in the current context of Chinese educational reforms. He places special emphasis on those reforms regarding English language education, with respect to the economic processes of globalization that are shaping (and being shaped by) the contemporary Chinese nation-state. In particular, the book analyzes the processes of institutional categorization of the "good experimental school", the "good student", and the "appropriate knowledge" that emerge from the daily discursive organization of those schools, with special attention to the related contradictions, uncertainties and dilemmas. Thus, it provides an account of the on-going cultural processes of change faced by contemporary Chinese educational institutions under conditions of late modernity. Winner of The University of Hong Kong's Faculty Early Career Research Output Award for outstanding book publication, by the Faculty of Education
Download or read book Scrubs written by Rosemary Jean Cadigan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Ethnography of Learning in an American Urban High School written by Lynn Kowalski and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Year One at City High School An Ethnographic Study of Heritage Language Learners at an Innovative Charter School written by Kimberly Adilia Helmer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packer and Goicoechea (2000) and Wortham (2006) propose that academic learning is both personal and social transformation. This transformation is continuously negotiated through classroom interaction and curricular choices. The current ethnographic study of an urban southwestern charter high school investigates academic learning in two contexts: a Spanish heritage-language (SHL) class and a humanities class. The study examines Mexican-origin students' resistance to studying their ancestral language. From the first day of their SHL class, students refused to speak Spanish (despite their proficiency), rejected published Spanish-language materials, and acted out. Student resistance was rooted in their perceived lack of relevant tasks and materials, teacher-respect for their home language and culture, and student belief that learning"proper Spanish"could threaten social and familial relationships (see also Fordham & Ogbu, 1986; Labov, 1972a; Mehan, Hubbard, & Villanueva, 1994). The resistance of the heritage language learners contrasts sharply with the engagement of the same students in their Humanities course in which students connect enthusiastically with subject matter and instructor. Findings suggest that engagement was fostered through the teacher's strict adherence to the principles of place-based learning (Gruenewald, 2003a, 2003b), critical democratic pedagogy (Shor, 1992), and the instructor's teacher ethos. Latinos have the greatest high school dropout rate in the United States while simultaneously being the largest growing demographic group (Carreira, 2003;"US Census Report, "2004; Waggoner, 2000). The pairing of these two statistics should draw alarm. Thus the study of Latino student engagement and resistance to academic learning is crucial for understanding this problem as well as exploring what pedagogies hold most promise. In terms of HL instruction, analyses reveal that a critical place-based approach to heritage-language instruction holds such promise.
Download or read book Becoming Critical Researchers written by Ernest Morrell and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Critical Researchers analyzes the findings of a two-year ethnographic study of the apprenticeship of urban youth as critical researchers of popular culture. Drawing on new literacy studies, critical pedagogy, and sociocultural learning theory, this book documents the changes in student participation within a critical research-focused community of practice. These changes include the acquisition and development of academic and critical literacies and the resulting translations of these literacies into increased academic performance, greater access to college, and commitment to social action. This book inserts critical and postmodern theory into the conception and evaluation of classroom practice and its findings suggest that programs centering on the lived experiences of teens can indeed achieve the goals of critical education, while also promoting academic achievement in urban schools.
Download or read book An Ethnographic Case Study of Classroom Learning Environments in a School Once Identified as a High poverty high achieving Urban School written by Blanche Smith Brownley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Successful European American Teachers of African American Students in Urban High Schools written by Thomas Daniel Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative research study describes how one person, a successful European American teacher of African American students in an urban high school, can have a major impact on the educational outcomes of his students. Using ethnographic methodologies, the researcher conducted observations and interviews with successful teachers. The construction of ideas and patterns, which teachers have formed from their own experiences in successfully working with African American students, were brought to light. Personal characteristics identified in the study included items such as having high expectations, building relationships, caring about students and possessing a sense of humor. In addition, the beliefs that influence teaching practices which allow them to be labeled as "successful" were identified and included having a shared philosophy regarding teaching, classroom procedures and students obtaining mastery of material taught. An unanticipated third finding also emerged, that of cultural sensitivity. It is the belief of the researcher that simply possessing the aforementioned personal characteristics and teaching practices is not enough. The dimension of cultural sensitivity seems to be the key component of successful European American teachers of African American students in urban high schools.
Download or read book Urban Ethnography written by Richard E. Ocejo and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing the ideas, analysis, and perspectives of experts in the method conducting research on a wide array of social phenomena in a variety of city contexts, this volume provides a look at the legacies of urban ethnography's methodological traditions and some of the challenges its practitioners face today.
Download or read book Give Me the Worst of Them and I ll Make Them the Best written by Muhammad A. Khalifa and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Next Generation written by John U. Ogbu and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
