Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City: Stories of Dispossession and Defiance from New Orleans

ISBN-13: 9780807750896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 190 str.

Kristen L. Buras; Jim Randels; Kalamu Ya Salaam

Opis

In cities across the nation, communities of color find themselves resisting state disinvestment and the politics of dispossession. Students at the Centera writing initiative based in several New Orleans high schoolstakes on this struggle through a close examination of race and schools. The book builds on the powerful stories of marginalized youth and their teachers who contest the policies that are destructive to their communities: decentralization, charter schools, market-based educational choice, teachers union-busting, mixed-income housing, and urban redevelopment. Striking commentaries from the foremost scholars of the day explore the wider implications of these stories for pedagogy and educational policy in schools across the United States and the globe. Most importantly, this book reveals what must be done to challenge oppressive conditions and transform our schools for the benefit of all students.