Learning to Liberate Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education

Name: Learning to Liberate Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education
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ISBN: 9780415898379

ISBN-10: 0415898374

ISBN-13: 9780415898379

Edition: 2012

Authors: Vajra Watson

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There are few more pressing problems in education than the crisis that is affecting urban schools. Extremely high drop-out rates and rates of incarceration among poor and minoritized youth, alienation from schools and other institutions, unemployment'¬ ;and the list could and does go on and on. All of these make it very hard to make a difference within urban schools. National policies surrounding privatization and marketization and more testing more often argue that the only solutions involve blaming teachers, placing schools in a competitive relationship with each other, turning to the private sector, and ratcheting up the pressure on teachers and students. In spite of a landscape that is…

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List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 6.18" wide x 8.90" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface: Gems in the Gutter



Introduction: Gangstas, Gunshots, and Grades



Dereca Blackmon: Pedagogy of Communication



Rudy Corpuz: Pedagogy of Community



Victor Damian: Pedagogy of Compassion



Jack Jacqua: Pedagogy of Commitment



What Does (Not) Work



Community-Based Urban Education



Grindin for all we Got from the Bottom to the Top


Appendices



Terminology



Methods and Validity



Participant-Observer or Observing Participant?



Interview Protocols and Youth Questionnaire



Website and Contact Information for the Community-Based Educators


Bibliography