Enora R. Brown is Brown is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago Her current work in human development and education examines the theories and assumptions that undergird traditional psychology and constructions of youth identities. Kenneth J. Saltman is Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Policy at DePaul University in Chicago and the author most recently of The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling andthe Assault on Public Schools (Routledge 2005) and co-editor of Education as Enforcement: The Militarizationand Corporatization of Schools (Routledge 2003).
Foreword by James Beane Acknowledgments Introduction Section I: The Social
Construction of Adolescence 1. From Adolescence G. Stanley Hall 2. The Role
of Pubertal Processes Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Edward O. Reiter 3. Teaching
Our Sons Gail Bederman 4. Denaturalizing Adolescence: The Politics of
Contemporary Representations Nancy Lesko 5. Bashing Youth and Wild in
Deceit Mike Males 6. The American Child and Other Cultural Inventions
William Kessen 7. The Invention of the Sexual Adolescent Jeffrey P. Moran
8. Nymphet Fantasies: Child Beauty Pageants and the Politics of Innocence
Henry A. Giroux Suggested Readings for Further Study Section II: The Middle
School Concept and the Purpose of Education 9. Turning Points: Preparing
American Youth for the21st Century Carnegie Council on Adolescent
Development 10. From The Emergent Middle School William Alexander 11. The
Future of Middle Level Education: Optimistic and Pessimistic Views John H.
Lounsbury and Gordon F. Vars 12. Back to the Future: Middle Schools and the
Turning Points Report Nancy Lesko 13. Schooling in Capitalist America
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis 14. Rivers of Fire: Amoco's iMPACT on
Education Kenneth J. Saltman and Robin Truth Goodman 15. From Pedagogy of
the Oppressed Paulo Freire Suggested Readings for Further Study Section
III: The Construction of Identity 16. Identity: Youth and Crisis Erik
Erikson 17. Racial Identity Formation and Transformation Janie Victoria
Ward 18. Freedom for Some, Discipline for Others: The Structure of Inequity
in Education Enora R. Brown 19. From Representation: Cultural
Representations and Signifying Practices Stuart Hall 20. From Bad Boys:
Public Schooling in the Making of Black Masculinity Ann Arnett Ferguson 21.
Canal Town Girls Julia Hall 22. Subtractive Schooling and Divisions among
Youth Angela Valenzuela 23. Asian Americans: The Absent/Silenced/Model
Minority Stacey Lee 24. Lesbian and Gay adolescents: Social and
Developmental Considerations Dennis Anderson, M.D. 25. English Only: The
Tongue-Tying of America Donaldo Macedo Suggested Readings for Further Study
Section IV: Curriculum, Assessment, and Critical Pedagogy 26. A Special
Kind of Unity James A. Beane 27. Critical Pedagogy and the Social
Construction of Knowledge Peter McLaren 28. Social Class and School
Knowledge Jean Anyon 29. Teaching and Learning Mathematics for Social
Justice in an Urban, Latino School Eric Gutstein 30. You can't just say
that the only ones who can speak are those who agree with your positions:
Political discourse in the classroom Melinda Fine 31. How come there are no
brothers on that list?: Hearing the hard questions all children ask Kathe
Jervis 32. Standardization, defensive teaching, and the problems of control
Linda M. McNeil Suggested Readings for Further Study Afterword by Mara
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