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Teaching city kids : understanding and appreciating them

"This book examines the maligned students who populate urban schools and finds a talented group of resilient young people who deserve the support of the larger society. The editors and authors explores the ways such students are undermined, in the process of developing new ways of teaching based on an understanding and appreciation of them"--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, ©2007
Peter Lang, New York, ©2007
vii, 311 pages ; 26 cm
9780820486031, 0820486035
70540519
City kids
not the kind of students you'd want to teach / Joe L. Kincheloe
Understanding city kids
Latinas in single-sex schools : an historical overview / Rosalina Diaz
How multicultural curriculum development often misses the mark / Pepi Leistyna
Urban youth and biographical projects : notes on educational and employment transitions / Richard D. Lakes
De facto zero tolerance : an exploratory study of race and safe school violations / Victor Goode and Jennifer D. Goode
Who you think I am is not necessarily who I think I am : the multiple positionalities of urban student identities / Rebecca A. Goldstein
Making a way out of no way : black male students at city high school / Garret Albert Duncan and Ryonnel Jackson
Appreciating city kids
Culturally responsive pedagogies : African American high school students' perspectives / Marguerite V. Wyngaard
Spoken word and hip hop : the power of urban art and culture / Priya Parmar and Bryonn Bain
Urban youth engaging poetry and creating learning communities / Korina M. Jocson
Urban African American female students and educational resiliency / Venus Evans-Winters
"I still fear I'm gonna slip" : a case study of African American and Latino males in an urban college preparation program / Noel S. Anderson
Appreciating the landscape that urban youth of color must navigate to become effective social actors in our civil society / Kecia Hayes
Teaching city kids
Race, urban schools, and educational reform : the context, utility, pros, and cons of the magnet example / Handel Kashope Wright and Sidonia Alenuma
Becoming whole again through critical thought : a recipe / Rochelle Brock
Supporting academic achievement in culturally diverse and academically talented urban students / Sally M. Reis and Thomas P. Hébert
Pedagogical practices within the prison industrial complex / L.A. Gabay
Multicultural story : learning from the experts in urban neighborhoods / Elizabeth Quintero
Urban students as critical ethnographers : critical textual production through community-based research / Ernest Morrell
Unplugged : releasing the creative potentials of urban students / Winthrop R. Holder