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

by Frederick L. Yeo

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:	2900815323111
Publication date:	03/01/1997
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Special Features

*oProvides concrete examples of teacher-student interaction in and out of the classroom

*Chronicles the author's difficult beginnings and how he learns to teach and empathize with the lives of his students

*Critiques economics, public policy and teacher education in relation to urban school failure

Contents

*Introduction

*Connecting Inner Cities and Urban Schools: Racism's "Slippery Slope"

*When and Where They Enter: Going to School in Urban America

*Teaching in an Urban School: A Personal Narrative

*Multicultural Education: Maintaining the Borders in Inner-City Schools

*A Vested Interest in Failure: Teacher Preparation and Inner-City Schools

*The Search for New Connections

*Appendix, Bibliography, Index

Courses for Adoption Anthropology of Education

*Sociology of Education

*Politics of Education

*Urban Education

*Middle School Education

*Curriculum and Administration

*Discipline and Classroom Management

*Educational Psychology

Indexes. Appendix. Bibliography.

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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