Full Description
Curriculum and Students in Classrooms: Everyday Urban Education in an Era of Standardization is a timely and thought-provoking work that attends to often-neglected aspects of schooling: the everyday interactions between curriculum, teachers, and students. Walter S. Gershon addresses the bridge between the curriculum and the students, the teachers, and their everyday pedagogical decisions. In doing so, this book explores the students' perspectives of their teachers, the language arts curriculum at an urban elementary school, and how the particular combination of curriculum and teaching work in tandem to narrow students' academic and social possibilities and reproduce racial, class, and gender inequities as normal. Recommended for scholars of education and curriculum studies.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1—Introduction
Chapter 2—Geared for Success: A Balanced Curriculum
Chapter 3—Skills, Tips, and Scripts: A Masquerade of Balance
Section II: Teachers and Teaching
Chapter 4—Curriculum Delivery in Mr. Jimenez and Mr. Gutierrez's Classrooms
Chapter 5—Mr. Jimenez and Mr. Gutierrez: Enacted Pedagogy and Curriculum
Section III: Students and Studenting
Chapter 6—Students, Studenting, and Daily Classroom Lessons
Chapter 7—Students' Classroom Roles and the Classroom Underlife: (Un)intended Social Consequences at a Good Urban School
Chapter 8—Windup and a Takedown
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