Urban Education with an Attitude

Herausgeber: Johnson, Lauri; Lewis, Rebecca; Finn, Mary E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book profiles local and national efforts to transform urban education and reinvent urban teacher preparation. It describes real programs in real urban schools that have developed policy initiatives that promote educational equity. Community-based curricula, and teacher education and parent empowerment programs that emphaize domocratic collaboration among universities, urban teachers, parents and community memebrs. By involving all stakeholdes, this comprehesive approach provides a model for creating urban schools that not only excite and inpire, but also serve an engines for social change. Contending that urban education reform will fail without public engagement and a commitment to social justice, the contributors challenge urban educators to become accountable to their students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780791463802
• ISBN-10: 079146380X
• Artikelnr.: 21161792

Autorenporträt

At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Lauri Johnson is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy and coauthor (with Sally Smith) of Dealing with Diversity through Multicultural Fiction: Library-Classroom Partnerships, and Mary E. Finn is former Director of the Urban Education Institute. Rebecca Lewis is Interim Assistant Provost of International Programs at the State University of New York College at Geneseo.