English in Urban Classrooms

English in Urban Classrooms

Author: Gunther R. Kress

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780415331692

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This ground-breaking text spans a range of issues central to school English. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other important modes of representation and communication.


Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools

Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools

Author: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-16

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1317921860

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Discover the teaching practices that make the biggest difference in student performance! This practical, research-based book gives principals, teachers, and school administrators a direct, inside look at instructional practices from top award-winning urban schools. The authors provide detailed examples and analyses of these practices, and successfully demystify the achievement of these schools. They offer practical guides to help educators apply these successful practices in their own schools. Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools will be a valuable tool for any educator in both urban and non-urban schools-schools that serve diverse student populations, including English language learners and children from low-income families.


Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms

Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms

Author: Dickson Corbett

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0807776041

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This timely volume reveals in great detail how educators closed the “performance gap” for low-income students by linking expectations and results. Drawing heavily on the words and experiences of students, teachers, and parents, this book describes how students who traditionally had not succeeded academically in school began to do so. Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms demonstrates just how this was done by including: In-depth descriptions of classrooms and schools where students began succeeding when educators assumed the responsibility for their successData-based discussion of teachers’ views on parental involvement in schools and parents’ views of teachers’ and schools’ actions on behalf of studentsIdentification of the kinds of support that schools and districts must provide if educators are to be successfulAn unrelenting emphasis on how educators enabled students to be motivated and to produce high-quality work “At last, a book that helps us see and feel what a ‘no excuses’ approach to teaching is like in urban classrooms! This close look at teachers and students in high-poverty settings gives new meaning to ‘all children can learn.’ A must read for those who are serious about closing the achievement gap.” —Michael S. Knapp, Center for the Study of Teaching & Policy, University of Washington


The Social Construction of Meaning

The Social Construction of Meaning

Author: John Yandell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-27

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 113500658X

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This book takes a fresh look at secondary urban English classrooms and at what happens when students and their teachers explore literature collaboratively. By closely examining what happens in English lessons, minute by minute, it reveals how literary texts function not as a valorised heritage to be transmitted, but as a resource for the students


Urban Schools and English Language Education in Late Modern China

Urban Schools and English Language Education in Late Modern China

Author: Miguel Perez-Milans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1134103530

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Shortlisted for the 2014 BAAL Book Prize This book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education. It examines the implications of the implementation of reforms in English language education for experimental-urban schools in the People’s Republic of China. Pérez-Milans sheds light on how national, linguistic, and cultural ideologies linked to modernization are being institutionally (re)produced, legitimated, and inter-personally negotiated through everyday practice in the current context of Chinese educational reforms. He places special emphasis on those reforms regarding English language education, with respect to the economic processes of globalization that are shaping (and being shaped by) the contemporary Chinese nation-state. In particular, the book analyzes the processes of institutional categorization of the "good experimental school", the "good student", and the "appropriate knowledge" that emerge from the daily discursive organization of those schools, with special attention to the related contradictions, uncertainties and dilemmas. Thus, it provides an account of the on-going cultural processes of change faced by contemporary Chinese educational institutions under conditions of late modernity. Winner of The University of Hong Kong's Faculty Early Career Research Output Award for outstanding book publication, by the Faculty of Education


Metropedagogy

Metropedagogy

Author: Joe L. Kincheloe

Publisher: Sense Publishers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 9077874100

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Metropedagogy: Power, Justice and the Urban Classroom Joe Kincheloe McGill University and kecia hayes (Eds.) The Graduate Center, City University of New York What might it mean to develop a rigorous, just, and practical urban education? Such a question takes on new importance in the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, as urban educators find themselves besieged with test-driven, standardized curricula promoted in the name of fairness, educational excellence, and egalitarianism. Those who promote these standardized curricula fail to account for the unique situations and need.


Urban Teaching in America

Urban Teaching in America

Author: Andrea J. Stairs

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1412980607

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This book provides undergraduate and graduate students in education with an overview of urban teaching. Organized around eight authentic questions, it offers pre-service and in-service teachers opportunities for critical reflection and problem-posing not often seen in comparable course texts. This text supports staff who are looking for increasingly creative approaches to exploring key educational issues with their students.


Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom

Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom

Author: Carol Frierson-Campbell

Publisher: R & L Education

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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The change needed in urban music education not only relates to the idea that music should be at the center of the curriculum; rather, it is that culturally relevant music should be a creative force at the center of reform in urban education. Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom: A Guide to Leadership, Teacher Education, and Reform is the start of a national-level conversation aimed at making that goal a reality.


Teaching Black Girls

Teaching Black Girls

Author: Venus E. Evans-Winters

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780820471037

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This book focuses on the pedagogical and educational needs of poor and working-class African American female students.


Listening to Urban Kids

Listening to Urban Kids

Author: Bruce L. Wilson

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2001-01-11

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0791491277

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According to the many student voices in this book, urban middle school students want teachers who "stay on them" to complete their work, maintain orderly classrooms, give them the extra help they need to succeed, explain their work clearly, draw on a variety of teaching strategies, and make their work relevant and meaningful. This book, rich in detail, brings these inner-city students' perspectives to life and issues a compelling call for urban school reform that actually touches students' daily lives.