Inner-City Schools, Multiculturalism, and Teacher Education: A Professional Journey / Edition 1

by Frederick L. Yeo, Joe Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg

Overview

Focusing on the causes for the continuing marginalization of minority children, this book examines inner-city education, its teaching practices, curricular rationales, perspectives of teachers and students, and the institutions themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815314349
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/1997
Series:	Critical Education Practice , #8
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Connecting Inner Cities and Urban Schools; Chapter 2 When and Where They Enter; Chapter 3 Teaching in an Urban School; Chapter 4 Multicultural Education; Chapter 5 A Vested Interest in Failure; Chapter 6 The Search for New Connections;

Editorial Reviews

"Yeo's ethnographic study is a refreshing authoritative look by an urban school teacher of how African American inner-city youth negotiate daily the harmful and marginalizing effects of official school culture." — Stepehen Haymes, DePaul University

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