| Challenges of Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives for the Next Century Contributor(s): McClafferty, Karen A. (Editor), Torres, Carlos Alberto (Editor), Mitchell, Theodore R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791444333 ISBN-13: 9780791444337 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | History - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Education | Multicultural Education |
| Dewey: 370.917 |
| LCCN: 99024397 |
| Physical Information: (1.34 lbs) 357 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A supplemental text with a fresh, bold edge, Challenges of Urban Education includes a range of topics from quantitative analyses of student demographics to the description and analysis of urban high school students' creative writing. The book bridges the dualisms of local and global, theory and practice, and structure and agency. It furthers the advancement of "the new sociology of education" by making connections between the social context of urban schooling and the lives of the individuals who are affected by it. Contributors include Michael W. Apple; Anthony Gary Dworkin; Pamela Fenning; harry Handler; David Keiser; Karen A. McClafferty; Peter McLaren; Roslyn Arlin Mickelson; Theodore R. Mitchell; Raymond A. Morrow; Marianela Parraga; Margaret K. Purser; Ayman Sheikh-Hussin; Sid Thompson; Laurence A. Toenjes; Carlos Alberto Torres; Eugene Tucker; Amy Stuart Wells; Geoff Whitty; and Jim Wilczynski.] |
