Challenges of Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives for the Next Century

Book Overview

Presents current research and theoretical perspectives on the challenges facing educators in U.S. urban schools.

A supplemental text with a fresh, bold edge, Challenges of Urban Education includes a range of topics from quantitative analyses of student demographics to the description and analysis of urban high school students' creative writing. The book bridges the dualisms of local and global, theory and practice, and structure and agency. It furthers the advancement of "the new sociology of education" by making connections between the social context of urban schooling and the lives of the individuals who are affected by it.

Contributors include Michael W. Apple; Anthony Gary Dworkin; Pamela Fenning; harry Handler; David Keiser; Karen A. McClafferty; Peter McLaren; Roslyn Arlin Mickelson; Theodore R. Mitchell; Raymond A. Morrow; Marianela Parraga; Margaret K. Purser; Ayman Sheikh-Hussin; Sid Thompson; Laurence A. Toenjes; Carlos Alberto Torres; Eugene Tucker; Amy Stuart Wells; Geoff Whitty; and Jim Wilczynski.]

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791444341
• ISBN13: 9780791444344
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Insightful

This book describes a realistic depiction of urban schools. I highly recommend prospective and current urban educators to read this book.