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

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...

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Main Author Antrop-González, Rene (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2011]
SeriesIssues in the research, theory, policy, and practice of urban education.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615957
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-592-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 117 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements. Series editors' preface
  • Chapter 1. Background and Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Overview
  • Chapter 3. The sociohistorical/political and curricular context of the dr
  • Chapter 4. Pedro albizu campos high school (pachs)
  • Chapter 5. Theorizing the schools as radical sanctuaries concept: The voices of puerto rican/latino and African American youth and their teachers
  • Chapter 6. Critical caring: Constructing instrumental student-teacher relationships of solidarity
  • Chapter 7. The school as radical sanctuary model: Policy and practice. Recommendations
  • References.