School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we hear working-class women--black and white, rural and urban, southern and northern--recount their childhood experiences, describing the circumstances that led them to drop out of school. Now enrolled in adult education programs, they seek more than a diploma: respect, recognition, and a public identity. Drawing upon the life stories of these women, Wendy Luttrell sensitively describes and analyzes the politics and psychodynamics that...
School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. ...
School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we hear working-class women--black and white, rural and urban, southern and northern--recount their childhood experiences, describing the circumstances that led them to drop out of school. Now enrolled in adult education programs, they seek more than a diploma: respect, recognition, and a public identity. Drawing upon the life stories of these women, Wendy Luttrell sensitively describes and analyzes the politics and psychodynamics that...
School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. ...
Everyone has a theory about teenage pregnancy. Wendy Luttrell offers an alternate view of a subject that has traditionally been scrutinized in ways that are racializing, class-blind and stigmatizing. Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and how they view themselves. It is an ethnography that focuses on 50 girls enrolled in a model public-school programme for pregnant teens. The book examines the anxieties, ambivalence and difficulties these girls face and explores how class and race issues add depth and specificity to the experience of...
Everyone has a theory about teenage pregnancy. Wendy Luttrell offers an alternate view of a subject that has traditionally been scrutinized in ways th...
Everyone has a theory about teenage pregnancy. Wendy Luttrell offers an alternate view of a subject that has traditionally been scrutinized in ways that are racializing, class-blind and stigmatizing. Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and how they view themselves. It is an ethnography that focuses on 50 girls enrolled in a model public-school programme for pregnant teens. The book examines the anxieties, ambivalence and difficulties these girls face and explores how class and race issues add depth and specificity to the experience of...
Everyone has a theory about teenage pregnancy. Wendy Luttrell offers an alternate view of a subject that has traditionally been scrutinized in ways th...
Qualitative Educational Research is a comprehensive anthology designed to deepen education students' thinking about their qualitative research purposes, questions, and decision-making. Focusing on various epistemological, intellectual, and ethical conflicts in doing social analysis, thisreader invites researchers-in-training to explore why, from what perspective, for whose benefit, and with what stakes are research questions being posed. Drawing from her wealth of expertise executing and teaching qualitative research methods, scholar Wendy Luttrell has selected essays...
Qualitative Educational Research is a comprehensive anthology designed to deepen education students' thinking about their qualitative rese...
