This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools,are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community. BARRY FRANKLIN Professor of Secondary Education at Utah State University, USA. INDICE: Community and Curriculum: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Urban School Reform - Community Conflict and Compensatory Education in New York City: More Effective Schools and the Clinic for Learning - Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit: The Northern High School Walkout - Race, Restructuring, and Educational Reform: The Mayoral Takeover of the Detroit Public Schools - Educational Partnerships, Urban School Reform, and the Building of Community - Educational Partnerships and Community: Education Action Zones and 'ThirdWay' Educational Reform in Britain - Smaller Learning Communities and the Reorganization of the Comprehensive High School - Epilogue: Community in a Cosmopolitan World. -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-33845-6
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés