Identity Work in the Classroom: Successful Learning in Urban Schools - Softcover

Jones-Walker, Cheryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807756911 ISBN 13: 9780807756911

Verlag: Teachers College Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This book provides classroom examples to demonstrate how identity-making is integral to the teaching and learning process. Responding to school reform efforts that focus on top-down reform measures, this book proposes "identity work" as an alternative approach. The author argues that efforts to improve urban schools should recognize the importance of relational change that focuses on deepening personal interactions between students and teachers, teachers and other teachers, and schools and parents. Based on an in-depth study of two classrooms in urban K-8 schools, the book illuminates the importance of allowing teachers the freedom to make pedagogical adjustments based on their knowledge of students' needs, backgrounds, and interests. This volume reframes our understanding of urban schools and raises questions about the goals of local and federal reform and what is at stake for educational systems.

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Cheryl Jones-Walker is an associate professor of educational studies on leave from Swarthmore College and currently a visiting associate professor at the University of San Francisco in the teacher education department. She has worked as a teacher, as a facilitator for school-based reform efforts, and on various educational organizing campaigns.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Teachers College Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807756911
• ISBN 13: 9780807756911
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande