Just schools
Subtitle: pursuing equality in societies of difference
By: Martha Minow, Richard A. Shweder, and Hazel Rose Markus, editors.
Contributors: Minow, Martha, 1954-; Shweder, Richard A.; Markus, Hazel.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780871545831
Subjects: Educational equalization -- United States; Multiculturalism -- United States; Educational equalization; Multiculturalism
Description: "In Just Schools, noted legal scholars, educators, and social scientists examine schools with widely divergent methods of fostering equality in order to explore the possibilities and limits of equal education today. The contributors to Just Schools combine empirical research with ethnographic accounts to paint a picture of the quest for justice in classrooms around the nation." "As America's schools strive to accommodate new students from around the world, Just Schools provides a look at the different ways we define and promote justice in schools and society at large."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pursuing equal education in societies of difference / Martha Minow, Richard A. Shweder, and Hazel Rose Markus; title: We're all for equality in U.S. school reforms : but what does it mean? / Martha Minow; title: Identity matters : ethnicity, race, and the American dream / Hazel Rose Markus; title: Contested terrain : visions of multiculturalism in an American town / Austin Sarat; title: Universal particularism : making an ethical Islamic school in Chicago / Barnaby B. Riedel; title: The reach and limits of cultural accommodation : public schools and Somali Muslim immigrants in Maine / Heather L. Lindkvist; title: Republican ironies : equality and identities in French schools / John R. Brown; title: Diversity, transformative citizenship education, and school reform / James A. Banks; title: After just schools : the equality-difference paradox and conflicting varieties of liberal hope / Richard A. Shweder.