Framing Dropouts Notes on the Politics of an Urban High School

Name: Framing Dropouts Notes on the Politics of an Urban High School
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ISBN: 9780791404041

ISBN-10: 0791404048

ISBN-13: 9780791404041

Edition: 1991

Authors: Michelle Fine

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Profiles high school dropouts, particularly low-income African- American and Latino students at a New York City high school, and finds that they are generally psychologically healthy, and should be considered more as critics of social and economic injustice and of the education and labor market arrangements than as the misfit losers they are dismissed as in the prevailing literature. Also available in paper (0404-8), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 3/5/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Michelle Fine is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center in New York.



Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Unpacking The Historic Irony


On Equal Educational Opportunities and Unequal Educational Outcomes


Critical Ethnographic Slices Of Comprehensive High: Voices, Bodies, And Critique


Silencing and Nurturing Student Voices


Discharging the Student Bodies


Where Are You Going?


On Critical Consciousness


Educators' Experiences: On Being Heard (and More Often, Not)


Burning at Both Ends: Low-Income Mothers, Their Public Schools, and Their Adolescents


Reframing Dropouts: Critical Theory And Activist Politics


Public Schools as a Public Sphere


Reclaiming the Public Sphere


Appendix: The Cohort Study: Tracking the Bodies


Notes


Bibliography


Index