Race, culture and schooling
Subtitle: identities of achievement in multicultural urban schools
By: Peter C. Murrell, Jr.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805855371; 9780805855388; 9781410617484
Subjects: Education, Urban -- United States; Minorities -- Education -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dilemmas of diversity in urban education : race, culture and underachievement; title: Overview of situated-mediated identity theory; title: Cultural practices inquiry culturally reading individuals-in-settings; title: The construction of academic identities situativity, positionality and agency in intellectual life; title: Communities of achievement as culturally con-figured worlds; title: Acquisition of cultural practices of achiever identities as learners; title: The cultural practices of achiever identities of teachers; title: Epilogue.