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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784220203321

Titolo

Schools as imagined communities [[electronic resource] ] : the creation of identity, meaning, and conflict in U.S. history / / edited by Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Sherman Dorn, Barbara J. Shircliffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36956-X

9786611369569

1-4039-8293-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 217 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Cobb-RobertsDeirdre

DornSherman

ShircliffeBarbara J

Disciplina

371.19/0973

Soggetti

Community and school - United States - History

Education - Social aspects - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : schools as imagined communities / Barbara J. Shircliffe, Sherman Dorn, and Deirdre Cobb-Roberts -- Education in an imagined community : lessons from Brook Farm / Vicki L. Eaklor -- Crafting community : Hartford Public High School in the nineteenth century / Melissa Ladd Teed -- Student-community voices : memories of access versus treatment at University of Illinois / Deirdre Cobb-Roberts -- From isolation to imagined communities of LGBT school workers : activism in the 1970s / Jackie M. Blount -- School and community loss, yet still imagined in the oral history of school segregation in Tampa, Florida / Barbara J. Shircliffe -- Imagined communities and special education / Sherman Dorn -- The Glover School historic site : rekindling the spirit of an African American school community / Elgin Klugh.

Sommario/riassunto

Government forces mean the notion of a 'community' school has become less defined by decisions on core curriculum. This collection explores the extent to which collective notions of school-community relations have prevented citizens from speaking openly about the



tensions created where schools are imagined as communities.