| Contents |
Power, meaning, and identity: critical sociology of education in the United States / Michael W. Apple -- Social theory and educational research: reframing the quantitative-qualitative distinction through a critical theory of methodology / Raymond A. Morrow -- Sociology of education and urban education policy / Geoff Whitty -- Where neoliberal ideology meets social context: a comparative analysis of U.S charter schools and England's grant-maintained schools / Amy Stuart Wells -- Corporations and classrooms: a critical examination of the business agenda for urban school reform / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson -- A comparative analysis of existing secondary school discipline policies: implications for improving practice and school safety / Pamela Fenning ... [et al.] -- Modeling the affects of changing demography on student learning: applications designed to change school district practices / Anthony Gary Dworkin ... [et al.] -- Gangsta pedagogy and ghettocentricity: the hip-hop nation as counterpublic sphere / Peter McLaren -- Battlin' nihilism at urban high school: pedagogy, perseverance, and hope / David Keiser -- Gaps, bridges, and buffers in the research, policy, and practice of urban education: a dialogue / Theodore R. Mitchell ... [et al.] -- Memoirs of urban education policymakers: a dialogue among three former urban school superintendents ... [et al.]. |
