Research in urban educational settings : lessons learned and implications for future practice

Results from quantitative and qualitative research studies have painted countless images of the unique features shaping urban schools including students' experiences and how the surrounding communities affect the entire system. Race, ethnicity, social class, language, power, politics, and publi...

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Other Authors Scott, Kimberly A. (Editor), Blanchett, Wanda J. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
Subjects
Education, Urban > Research > United States.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Educational strategies and policy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616466
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-208-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xviii, 225 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Carol Lee
  • Part I. Transitions
  • Chapter 1. Stories for educational leadership programs: Research at its best / Kimberly A. Scott and Jessica Solyom
  • Chapter 2. Asking the right questions in urban education research: Researcher values / Wanda J. Blanchett and Shelley Zion
  • Chapter 3. Research as an epistemological architect of marginalizing power / Beverly E. Cross
  • Chapter 4. Transformative scholarship: Problematizing the role of insider within educational research in urban settings / Jody N. Polleck
  • Part II. Lessons learned
  • Chapter 5. A view from the other side: Practitioner research on critical mathematics pedagogy in an urban high school / Andrew Brantlinger
  • Chapter 6. Creating effective learning opportunities for diverse students and families: Implications for conducting urban education research / Kimberley Woo
  • Chapter 7. Makin' a way out of no way: Forging a path in urban special education research / Monika Shealey
  • Part III. Negotiations and collaborations
  • Chapter 8. Service and scholarship: How opportunities to give back foster culturally responsive and respectful research projects / Raquel Farmer-Hinton
  • Chapter 9. Insider and outsider: Reflexivity and intersubjectivity in ethnography / Jamie Lew
  • Chapter 10. One educator's perspective of the disconnect between the academy and African American school districts / Eustace Thompson
  • Chapter 11. Getting beyond the script: Negotiating the complexities of urban settings as research sites / Amina Jones and Na'ilah Suad Nasir
  • About the authors.

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