Race, Culture, and Schooling Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools

Name: Race, Culture, and Schooling Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools
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ISBN: 9780805855388

ISBN-10: 0805855386

ISBN-13: 9780805855388

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jr. Murrell

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Responding to a need for greater cultural competence in the preparation and development of teachers in diverse public school settings, this book investigates the critical developmental and social processes mediating students' academic identities in those settings posing the greatest challenges to their school achievement and personal development. It provides an accessible, practice-oriented culturally responsive framework for teachers in American schools. Murrell proposes a "situated-mediated identity theory" that emphasizes examining not just the child, not just the school environment, but also the child in-context as the unit of analysis to understand how both mutually constitute each…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.06" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface



Theoretical Framework



Dilemmas of Diversity in Urban Education: Race, Culture, and Underachievement



Overview of Situated-Mediated Identity Theory



Cultural Practices Inquiry: Culturally Reading Individuals-in-Settings



Application of the Framework



The Construction of Academic Identities: Situativity, Positionality, and Agency in Intellectual Life



Communities of Achievement as Culturally Configured Worlds



Acquisition of Cultural Practices of Achiever Identities as Learners



The Cultural Practices of Achiever Identities of Teachers


Epilogue


References


Author Index


Subject Index