Toxic schools
Subtitle: high-poverty education in New York and Amsterdam
By: Bowen Paulle
Series: Fieldwork encounters and discoveries; Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780226066387; 9780226066417
Subjects: Social aspects; Low-income high school students; School violence; Urban schools; Urban Education
Description: Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centrepieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society - and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Based on six years of teaching and research in the South Bronx and in Southeast Amsterdam, this book is the first fully participatory ethnographic study of its kind and a searing examination of daily life in two radically different settings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: getting situated; title: Recognizing the real, restructuring the game; title: Episodic violence, perpetual threats; title: Exile and commitment; title: Survival of the nurtured; title: The tipping of classrooms, teachers left behind.