Toxic Schools Highpoverty Education in New York and Amsterdam - High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the author paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in real time, with the chronic stress, peer group dynamics, and subtle power politics of urban educational spaces in the perpetual shadow of aggression.

About the author

Bowen Paulle teaches at the University of Amsterdam. A native New Yorker, he lives in the Netherlands.

Summary

From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the author paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in real time, with the chronic stress, peer group dynamics, and subtle power politics of urban educational spaces in the perpetual shadow of aggression.

Product details

• Authors: Bowen Paulle, Paulle Bowen
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2013
• EAN: 9780226066417
• ISBN: 978-0-226-06641-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries; Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries; Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; New York, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, EDUCATION / Counseling / General, Poverty & unemployment, Netherlands, Schools, Poverty and precarity, Schools and pre-schools, Education: care & counselling of students, Counselling and care of students, EDUCATION / Schools / General