Cheryl Jones-Walker

Identity Work in the Classroom

Successful Learning in Urban Schools

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides classroom examples to demonstrate how identity-making is integral to the teaching and learning process. Responding to school reform efforts that focus on top-down reform measures, this book proposes identity work as an alternative approach. The author argues that efforts to improve urban schools should recognize the importance of relational change that focuses on deepening personal interactions between students and teachers, teachers and other teachers, and schools and parents. Based on an in-depth study of two classrooms in urban K8 schools, the book illuminates the importance of allowing teachers the freedom to make pedagogical adjustments based on their knowledge of students needs, backgrounds, and interests. This volume reframes our understanding of urban schools and raises questions about the goals of local and federal reform and what is at stake for educational systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Teachers College Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780807756928
• ISBN-10: 080775692X
• Artikelnr.: 43412933

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Jones-Walker is an associate professor of educational studies on leave from Swarthmore College and currently a visiting associate professor at the University of San Francisco in the teacher education department. She has worked as a teacher, as a facilitator for school-based reform efforts, and on various educational organizing campaigns.