Schools as radical sanctuaries : decolonizing urban education through the eyes of youth of color and their teachers

• Main Author: Antrop-González, Rene (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2011]
• Series: Issues in the research, theory, policy, and practice of urban education.
• Subjects: Puerto Rican youth > Education (Secondary) > United States.; Education, Urban > United States.; Critical pedagogy > United States.; Puerto Ricans > United States > Ethnic identity.; Assimilation (Sociology) > United States.; Urban teenagers > Education (Secondary) > United States.; Education > Urban.; Philosophy and theory of education.; Education.; Urban communities.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806615957
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-592-9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 117 pages)

Large, comprehensive urban high schools were designed and constructed with the belief that they could meet the needs of all its students, academic and otherwise. By and large, however, these schools have only done a good job of sorting students for specific jobs in a society based on capitalism and...