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OverviewThis book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community. Full Product DetailsAuthor: B. FranklinPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9780230338456ISBN 10: 0230338453 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 14 March 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsCommunity and Curriculum: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Urban School Reform Community Conflict and Compensatory Education in New York City: More Effective Schools and the Clinic for Learning Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit: The Northern High School Walkout Race, Restructuring, and Educational Reform: The Mayoral Takeover of the Detroit Public Schools Educational Partnerships, Urban School Reform, and the Building of Community Educational Partnerships and Community: Education Action Zones and 'Third Way' Educational Reform in Britain Smaller Learning Communities and the Reorganization of the Comprehensive High School Epilogue: Community in a Cosmopolitan World.Reviews<p> This valuable book explores the conflicting meanings of community--exclusive and inclusive, tribal and cosmopolitan--that have been embedded in American urban school reform efforts in the last half century. --David Labaree, Stanford University<p> Franklin provides a thoughtful discussion of community, with historical and contemporary accounts of its complexity, especially in connection with educational problems. His treatment of the dilemmas facing city schools reveals the political tensions that make reform difficult. In the end, there can be little doubt that finding common ground in a shared sense of purpose is essential to enabling troubled urban institutions to succeed. --John L. Rury, Professor of Education (ELPS), University of Kansas<p> Franklin is the foremost historian of community in the U.S. Compellingly written and based on meticulous research, his nuanced analysis of urban school reform reawakens in us a sense of belonging while it fortifies our commitment to providi This valuable book explores the conflicting meanings of community--exclusive and inclusive, tribal and cosmopolitan--that have been embedded in American urban school reform efforts in the last half century. --David Labaree, Stanford University Franklin provides a thoughtful discussion of community, with historical and contemporary accounts of its complexity, especially in connection with educational problems. His treatment of the dilemmas facing city schools reveals the political tensions that make reform difficult. In the end, there can be little doubt that finding common ground in a shared sense of purpose is essential to enabling troubled urban institutions to succeed. --John L. Rury, Professor of Education (ELPS), University of Kansas Franklin is the foremost historian of community in the U.S. Compellingly written and based on meticulous research, his nuanced analysis of urban school reform reawakens in us a sense of belonging while it fortifies our commitment to providing education for the good of all people. --Lynn Fendler, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University By turning the varied conceptions of community into an interpretive lens that links teachers' thoughts and school organization to broader global shifts, Franklin demonstrates the move from governing to enabling, providing new analytical leverage on aspects of the everyday that are both visible and invisible. It's rare to read this range of literature around such a commonplace term--a true redefinition of the debate over what it means to belong and to educate. --Bernadette Baker, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education This inspiring book impressively reminds educational scientists, reformers, and policy makers of the essential role of community in analyzing and understanding the genealogies of school and curriculum reforms. --Daniel Trohler, University of Luxembourg Franklin assembles a tight mosaic of 'policy narratives' in his historical and contemporary case-study approach to important educational and social issues. He brings sharp critical lenses and extensive research to a formidable task, clarifying complex questions in the process. His interpretive and analytical coverage of the last half century of urban school 'reform' illuminates deeply rooted racial conflict, the possibilities and pitfalls in public-private partnerships, and the promise and uncertainty inherent in globalization and cosmopolitanism. Above compensatory education, mayoral takeovers, community control, educational partnerships, and smaller learning communities in places such as New York, Detroit, Minneapolis and Great Britain. These case studies help readers to more fully grasp political tensions and thus prepare them to search for firmer common ground in troubled times... Highly recommended. --CHOICE Author InformationBARRY M. FRANKLIN is Professor of Secondary Education at Utah State University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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