Market Movements: African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform

ISBN-13: 9780415956086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 192 str.

Thomas Pedroni

Opis

Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as a means of removing their children from public schools they deemed unacceptable. The book works to discern the overlaps and tensions between the educational visions of African American voucher families and those of powerful conservative educational forces in U.S. society which purport to be allied with them. To the extent that there are points of divergence with the educational right, and points of convergence with educational progressives, this book provides a hopeful message and a practical vision. It seeks to accomplish some of the critical empirical and conceptual groundwork that is necessary in order to renew the increasingly fractious relations between those social actorsteachers, communities of color, critical researchers, and labor unionsmost likely to defend and expand previous social democratic victories.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: The Movement Finds the Market: Education and the New Terrain of Racial Justice after Brown Chapter 2: Empowering Parents and Markets: Conservative Modernization and the Decline of the Welfare State Chapter 3: The Movement to the Market: Making do on a Post-Brown Terrain Chapter 4: The Promised Land and the Market: Leadership on an Unsettling Terrain Chapter 5: Shopping around for Justice, and Enhancing the Value of Black Children in the Marketplace Chapter 6: From Making do to Remaking Alliances: A call for Progressive Modernization in Education and Beyond Appendix

O autorze

Thomas C. Pedroni