Metropedagogy:
Power, Justice and the Urban Classroom

Joe Kincheloe
McGill University

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kecia hayes (Eds.)
The Graduate Center, City University of New York

What might it mean to develop a rigorous, just, and practical urban education? Such a question takes on new importance in the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, as urban educators find themselves besieged with test-driven, standardized curricula promoted in the name of fairness, educational excellence, and egalitarianism. Those who promote these standardized curricula fail to account for the unique situations...

In this book the foundations and applicability of the Generalized Fechner-Thurstone Utility Function are laid out. It is also shown that whereas the existence of a fixed preference utility function is not always guaranteed for different demand functions, there will always exist at least one Generalized Fechner-Thurstone Direct Utility Function.