Minority education : anthropological perspectives / edited by Evelyn Jacob, Cathie Jordan.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Norwood, NJ : Ablex Pub. Corp., ©1993.
Description
viii, 281 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Social and policy issues in education [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Understanding minority education : framing the issues / Evelyn Jacob and Cathie Jordan
    • Understanding educational anthropology : concepts and methods / Evelyn Jacob and Cathie Jordan
    • Cultural continuity and discontinuity. Transformation and school success : the politics and culture of educational achievement / Frederick Erickson
    • Explaining school failure, producing school success : two cases / Lynn A. Vogt, Cathie Jordan, and Roland G. Tharp
    • Change as the goal of educational research / Luis C. Moll and Stephen Diaz
    • Societal forces and minority responses. Frameworks-- variability in minority school performance : a problem in search of an explanation / John U. Ogbu
    • The school performance of immigrant minorities : a comparative view / Margaret A. Gibson
    • "Becoming somebody" : Central American immigrants in U.S. inner-city schools / Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco.
    • (cont.) Additional and alternative perspectives. Building our house from the rubbish tree : minority-directed education / Barbara Harrison
    • Constructing cultural differences and educational achievement in schools / Margaret A. Eisenhart and M. Elizabeth Graue
    • Resistance and compliance in minority classrooms / John D'Amato
    • Failure's failure / David Smith [and others]
    • Policy and practice considerations. Ethnography and policy : a catalytic combination for change / David M. Fetterman
    • Contexts of education, contexts of application : anthropological perspectives and educational practice / Cathie Jordan and Evelyn Jacob.
    ISBN
    • 0893918687
    • 9780893918682
    • 0893919373 ((pbk.))
    • 9780893919375 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    92027519
    OCLC
    26364211
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