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Title

The Praeger handbook of urban education / edited by Joe L. Kincheloe ... [et al.].

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kincheloe, Joe L.

Description

2 v. (xliii, 623 p.); 27 cm.

Alternative Title

Handbook of urban education

Subject

• Education, Urban > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

PARTIAL CONTENTS: v.1. Introduction: The power of hope in the trenches -- THE CONTEXT OF URBAN EDUCATION: No child left behind and urban education: the purpose and funding of public education -- The militarized zone -- Big cities, small schools: redefining educational spaces in the urban context -- The significance of urban street vendors -- Why should urban educators care about community organizing to reform shcools? -- RACE/ETHNICITY AND URBAN EDUCATION: A sociological critique of meaningful differences: a functional approach to the parenting style of low-income African American families -- Black women activists, leaders, and educators; transforming urban educational practice -- Dilemmas confronting urban principals in the post-civil rights era -- Bring in da noise, bring in Du Bois: infusing an African-American educational ideology into the urban education discourse -- Race, class, and gender in urban education: exploring the critical research in urban pedagogy and school reform -- Whiteness in teacher education -- Should the Holocaust be taught in urban schools? -- Rethinking the White Man's Burden: identity and pedagogy for an inter-city student teacher -- African-American teachers: the dying group -- SOCIAL JUSTICE: Participatory democratic education: is the utopia possible? Porto Alegre's Citizen School Project -- TEACHING AND PEDAGOGY: Identity as dialectic: Re/Making self in urban schooling -- The professional development of teachers of science in urban schools: issues and challenges -- Contemplative urban education -- Conflict resolution strategies for inter-city youth -- One day at a time: substitute teaching in urban schools -- Developing scholar-practitioner leaders in the urban education in crisis -- Voice, access, and democratic participation: toward a transformational paradigm of parent involvement in urban education -- Rewriting the curriculum for urban teacher preparation -- Rethinking the curriculum for urban teacher preparation -- The testing movement and urban education -- Forming a circle: creating a learning community for urban commuting adult students in an interdisciplinary studies program -- Tolerance with children: a critique of zero tolerance in school discipline -- Literacy in urban education: problems and promises -- Complicating our identities as urban teachers: a co/autoethnography -- Democratic urban education : imagining possibilities -- Critical theory, voice, and urban education -- The need for free play in natural settings -- Any given Saturday -- People leaves and Charley Horses: the dichtomous definition of urban education -- Exploring urban landscapes: a postmodern approach to learning -- v. 2. POWER AND URBAN EDUCATION: Global capitalism and urban education -- Toward an anticolonial education -- Education in a globalized society: over five centuries, the colonial struggle continues -- Universities, regional policy, and the knowledge economy -- The individual versus the collective in a time of globalization: educational implications -- School finance in urban America -- LANGUAGE AND URBAN EDUCATION: Evaluating programs for English language learners: possiblities for biliteracy in urban school districts in California -- Bilingual-bicultural literacy pedagogies and the politics of Project Head Start -- CULTURAL STUDIES AND URBAN EDUCATION: Hollywood's depiction of urban schools: documentary or fiction? -- The revolutionary praxis of PunKore Street pedagogy -- Civil rights, noble cause, and Trojan horse: news portrayals of vouchers and urban education -- RESEARCH AND URBAN EDUCATION: Utilizing Carino in the development of research methodologies -- Tangling the knot while loosening the strings: examining the limits and possibilities of urban education for African-American males -- Multisited ethnographic approaches in urban education in urban education today -- Objectivity in educational research: the quest for certainty between the 1950s and the 1970s -- AESTHETICS AND URBAN EDUCATION: In the middle: an artist/researcher experiences urban reform -- Aesthetics and urban education: urban learners' affirmation and transformation through arts and human development education -- Aesthetic consciousness and dance curriculum: liberation possibilities for inter-city schools -- Creating connections, shaping community: artists/teachers in urban contexts (urban gypsies) -- Urban art museums and the education of teachers and students -- The arts in urban education -- Cities; contested aesthetic spaces -- EDUCATION POLICY AND URBAN EDUCATION: System-to-system partnership as a reform strategy for urban schools -- Diversity and security challenges for urban school planning and change.

Call Number

Sc F 07-224

ISBN

• 0313333246 (set : alk. paper)
• 9780313333248 (set : alk. paper)
• 0313335117 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
• 9780313335112 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
• 0313335125 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
• 9780313335129 (v. 2 : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005031624

OCLC

62322163

Title

The Praeger handbook of urban education / edited by Joe L. Kincheloe ... [et al.].

Imprint

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Kincheloe, Joe L.

Research Call Number

Sc F 07-224