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Urban teacher education and teaching : innovative practices for diversity and social justice / edited by R. Patrick Solomon, Dia N.R. Sekayi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.Description: xv, 260 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0805855017
  • 9780805855012
  • 0805855025
  • 9780805855029
  • 9781410614353 (ebk.)
  • 1410614352 (ebk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC5119.8 .U73 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Peter C. Murrell, Jr. -- Preface -- Introduction / R. Patrick Solomon and Dia N.R. Sekayi. PART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMING OF URBAN SCHOOLING. Using representation to conceptualize a social justice approach to urban teacher preparation / Sonia James-Wilson -- Developing educational collectives and networks: moving beyond the boundaries of "community" in urban education / Beverly-Jean Daniel -- Gender, power, and accountability in urban teacher education: tensions of women working with women / Lois Weiner. PART II: PRE-SERVICE TEACHER PREPARATION FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION. Pre-service teachers as border crossers: linking urban schools and communities through service learning / R. Patrick Solomon [and others] -- Moving beyond institutional boundaries in inner-city teacher education / Harry Smaller -- Thinking outside the box: fostering racial and ethnic discourses in urban teacher education / Patricia A. Young -- Critical pedagogy and authoritarian culture: challenges of Jamaican migrant teachers in American urban schools / Carol Hordatt Gentles -- Confronting postcolonial legacies through pre-service teacher education: the case of Jamaica / Hyacinth Evans and Joan Tucker. PART III: CULTURALLY RELEVANT PEDAGOGY AND ADVOCACY IN URBAN SETTINGS. Student resistance to culturally irrelevant curriculum and pedagogy: the role of critical consciousness / Dia N.R. Sekayi -- Integrating computer-facilitated learning in urban schools: challenges to the pre-service teacher / Rupertia Minott-Bent -- The literary voices of urban adolescents: multifactor influences on textual interpretations / Wanda Brooks -- The politics of advocacy, strategies for change: diversity and social justice pedagogy in urban schools / R. Patrick Solomon, [et al.] -- The confluence of teacher education and inner-city activism: a reciprocal possibility / Charlotte Reid.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword / Peter C. Murrell, Jr. -- Preface -- Introduction / R. Patrick Solomon and Dia N.R. Sekayi. PART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMING OF URBAN SCHOOLING. Using representation to conceptualize a social justice approach to urban teacher preparation / Sonia James-Wilson -- Developing educational collectives and networks: moving beyond the boundaries of "community" in urban education / Beverly-Jean Daniel -- Gender, power, and accountability in urban teacher education: tensions of women working with women / Lois Weiner. PART II: PRE-SERVICE TEACHER PREPARATION FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION. Pre-service teachers as border crossers: linking urban schools and communities through service learning / R. Patrick Solomon [and others] -- Moving beyond institutional boundaries in inner-city teacher education / Harry Smaller -- Thinking outside the box: fostering racial and ethnic discourses in urban teacher education / Patricia A. Young -- Critical pedagogy and authoritarian culture: challenges of Jamaican migrant teachers in American urban schools / Carol Hordatt Gentles -- Confronting postcolonial legacies through pre-service teacher education: the case of Jamaica / Hyacinth Evans and Joan Tucker. PART III: CULTURALLY RELEVANT PEDAGOGY AND ADVOCACY IN URBAN SETTINGS. Student resistance to culturally irrelevant curriculum and pedagogy: the role of critical consciousness / Dia N.R. Sekayi -- Integrating computer-facilitated learning in urban schools: challenges to the pre-service teacher / Rupertia Minott-Bent -- The literary voices of urban adolescents: multifactor influences on textual interpretations / Wanda Brooks -- The politics of advocacy, strategies for change: diversity and social justice pedagogy in urban schools / R. Patrick Solomon, [et al.] -- The confluence of teacher education and inner-city activism: a reciprocal possibility / Charlotte Reid.