Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations - Re-Imagining Schools

Fine and Weis are among the best writers on education in the nation. This book demonstrates the limits and possibilities of critical education in powerful ways.

About the author

Michelle Fine is Distinguished Professor of Social/Personality Psychology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Summary

A collection of essays on social class, race, gender and schooling in which the authors take a serious look at the paradox of public education - the ways in which urban schools reproduce social inequalities while, at the same time, serve as sites for learning at its most transformative.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Fine, Lois Weis
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.01.2003
• EAN: 9780807742846
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4284-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 304 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries