Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations... Re-Imagining Schools.

Autor/inn/en	Fine, Michelle; Weis, Lois
Titel	Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations... Re-Imagining Schools.
Quelle	(2003), (208 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-8077-4284-8
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Black Students; Disadvantaged Youth; Diversity (Student); Educational Quality; Educationally Disadvantaged; Elementary Secondary Education; Females; Gender Issues; Magnet Schools; Minority Group Children; Poverty; Public Schools; Racial Discrimination; Sex Education; Sexual Abstinence; Sexuality; Urban Schools; Whites; Working Class + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Weibliches Geschlecht; Geschlechterfrage; Armut; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Racial bias; Rassismus; Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Sexualität; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; White; Weißer; Arbeiterklasse
Abstract	This collection of papers examines the crisis in public education, focusing on poor and minority children. There are seven chapters in two parts. After "Introduction: Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations" (Michelle Fine and Lois Weis), Part 1, "Scenes of Silencing," includes: (1) "Silencing and Nurturing Voice in an Improbable Context: Urban Adolescents in Public School" (Michelle Fine); (2) "Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire" (Michelle Fine); (3) "Constructing the 'Other': Discursive Renditions of White Working-Class Males in High School" (Lois Weis); and (4) "Acquiring White Working-Class Identities: Legitimate and Silenced Discourse within the School" (Lois Weis). Part 2, "Scenes of Extraordinary Conversations," includes: (5) "Before the Bleach Gets Us All" (Michelle Fine, Bernadette Anand, Carlton Jordan, and Dana Sherman); (6) "Learning to Speak Out in an Abstinence-Based Sex Education Group: Gender and Race Work in an Urban Magnet School" (Lois Weis and Doris Cabonell-Medina); and (7) "Revisiting the Struggle for Integration" (Michelle Fine and Bernadette Anand). An epilogue presents "A Memo to Educators" (Lois Weis and Michelle Fine). (Contains approximately 285 references.) (SM)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC