The critical middle school reader
By: edited by Enora R. Brown and Kenneth J. Saltman.
Contributors: Brown, Enora R.; Saltman, Kenneth J., 1969-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
Subjects: Critical pedagogy.; Middle school education.
Description: A unique interdisciplinary compilation of readings that challenge and refocus our basic assumptions about the policies and practices of middle school.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Adolescence / G. Stanley Hall; title: The role of pubertal processes / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Edward O. Reiter; title: "Teaching our sons" / Gail Bederman; title: Denaturalizing adolescence : the politics of contemporary representations / Nancy Lesko; title: "Bashing youth" and "wild in deceit" / Mike Males; title: The American child and other cultural inventions / William Kessen; title: The invention of the sexual adolescent / Jeffrey P. Moran; title: Nymphet fantasies : child beauty pageants and the politics of innocence / Henry A. Giroux; title: Turning points : preparing American youth for the 21st century / Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development; title: From The emergent middle school / William Alexander; title: The future of middle level education : optimistic and pessimistic views / John H. Lounsbury and Gordon F. Vars; title: Back to the future : middle schools and the Turning points report / Nancy Lesko; title: Schooling in capitalist America / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis; title: Rivers of fire : Amoco's iMPACT on education / Kenneth J. Saltman and Robin Truth Goodman; title: From Pedagogy of the oppressed / Paolo Freire; title: Identity : youth and crisis / Erik Erikson; title: Racial identity formation and transformation / Janie Victoria Ward; title: Freedom for some, discipline for "others" : the structure of inequity in education / Enora R. Brown; title: From Representation, cultural representations and signifying practices / Stuart Hall; title: From Bad boys, public schooling in the making of Black masculinity / Ann Arnett Ferguson; title: Canal Town girls / Julia Hall; title: Subtractive schooling and divisions among youth / Angela Valenzuela; title: Asian Americans : the absent/silenced/model minority / Stacey Lee; title: Lesbian and gay adolescents : social and developmental considerations / Dennis Anderson; title: English only : the tongue-tying of america / Donaldo Macedo; title: A special kind of unity / James A. Beane; title: Critical pedagogy and the social construction of knowledge / Peter McLaren; title: Social class and school knowledge / Jean Anyon; title: Teaching and learning mathematics for social justice in an urban, Latino school / Eric Gutstein; title: "You can't just say that the only ones who can speak are those who agree with your positions" : political discourse in the classroom / Melinda Fine; title: "How come there are no brothers on that list?" : hearing the hard questions all children ask / Kathe Jervis; title: Standardization, defensive teaching, and the problems of control / Linda M. McNeil.