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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792124903321

Autore

Franklin B

Titolo

Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform [[electronic resource] /] / by B. Franklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

1-349-37717-1

1-282-90892-8

9786612908927

0-230-10574-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Secondary Education in a Changing World

Disciplina

371.19

375

Soggetti

Curriculums (Courses of study)

Education—Curricula

Education—Philosophy

Geology

Educational sociology

International education 

Comparative education

Curriculum Studies

Educational Philosophy

Sociology of Education

International and Comparative Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgment; List of Abbreviations; 1 Community and Curriculum: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Urban School Reform; 2 Community Conflict and Compensatory Education in New York City: More Effective Schools and the Clinic for Learning; 3 Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit: The Northern High School Walkout; 4 Race and Community in a Black Led City: The Case of Detroit and the Mayoral Takeover of the Board of



Education; 5 Educational Partnerships, Urban School Reform, and the Building of Community

6 Educational Partnerships and Community: Education Action Zones and ""Third Way"" Educational Reform in Britain7 Smaller Learning Communities and the Reorganization of the Comprehensive High School; Epilogue: Community in a Cosmopolitan World; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community.