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Zusatztext "Yeo's ethnographic study is a refreshing authoritative look by an urban school teacher of how African American inner-city youth negotiate daily the harmful and marginalizing effects of official school culture." -- Stepehen Haymes! DePaul University Informationen zum Autor Frederick L. Yeo Klappentext Focusing on the causes for the continuing marginalization of minority children, this book examines inner-city education, its teaching practices, curricular rationales, perspectives of teachers and students, and the institutions themselves. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the causes for the continuing marginalization of minority children! this book examines inner-city education! its teaching practices! curricular rationales! perspectives of teachers and students! and the institutions themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis Special Features,*oProvides concrete examples of teacher-student interaction in and out of the classroom ,*Chronicles the author's difficult beginnings and how he learns to teach and empathize with the lives of his students ,*Critiques economics, public policy and teacher education in relation to urban school failure ,Contents ,*Introduction ,*Connecting Inner Cities and Urban Schools: Racism's Slippery Slope ,*When and Where They Enter: Going to School in Urban America ,*Teaching in an Urban School: A Personal Narrative ,*Multicultural Education: Maintaining the Borders in Inner-City Schools ,*A Vested Interest in Failure: Teacher Preparation and Inner-City Schools ,*The Search for New Connections ,*Appendix, Bibliography, Index ,Courses for Adoption Anthropology of Education ,*Sociology of Education ,*Politics of Education ,*Urban Education ,*Middle School Education ,*Curriculum and Administration ,*Discipline and Classroom Management ,*Educational Psychology ,Indexes. Appendix. Bibliography.
