Urban Education - A Comprehensive Guide for Educators, Parents, and Teachers (Paperback)

Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by numerous contradictions, this book proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge that urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice. It is necessary for teachers in urban schools to be scholar-practitioners, as opposed to bureaucrats who only follow rather than analyze, understand, and create. Ten major sections cover the myriad issues of urban education as it exists today: context of urban education, race and ethnicity, social justice, teaching and pedagogy, power and urban education, language issues, cultural issues of urban schools as seen in the media, research in city schools, aesthetics and the proximity of cultural institutions, and education policy. Sixty one essays written by specialists in teacher education; public policy; sociology; psychology; applied linguistics; forestry; urban studies; school administration; cultural studies; evaluation; and linguistics, provide a blueprint for scholars, teachers, parents, urban politicians, school administrators, policy professionals, and others seeking to understand the situation of urban schools across America today.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Education
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	August 2007
Editors:	Joe L Kincheloe • Kecia Hayes • Karel Rose • Philip M Anderson
Dimensions:	255 x 180 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	670
ISBN-13:	978-1-57886-616-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General
LSN:	1-57886-616-2
Barcode:	9781578866168

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