Blackberries and Black Students - A Cultural Profile of New York City Schools (Paperback)

The New York City public school system is currently experiencing the debilitating, convulsive fits of an existential crisis, a crisis exacerbated by its physical enormity, impersonality and utilitarian orientation. Blackberries and Black Students represents a rather impressionistic account of this crisis as it is objectified in many predominantly black schools in New York City. Personifying this crisis is an emaciated centralized bureaucracy of politicians-cum-educators; a cadre of abysmally inept, inexperienced administrators with little or no pedagogical experience; demoralized teachers who often lament their premature loss of intellectual idealism; uncooperative parents whose socializing efforts are at best perfunctory and indulgent; and a population of maladapted students whose worldview is shaped by an afrocentrist (multiculturalist) orientation that routinely romanticizes and exculpates much of their rebelliousness and recusant, anti-intellectual behavior.

General

Imprint:	Book Surge Publishing Co.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2009
First published:	February 2009
Authors:	Clifton Arthur Luke
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-1-4392-0201-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4392-0201-X
Barcode:	9781439202012

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