Waiting for Superwoman: White Female Teachers and the Construction of the "Neoliberal Savior" in a New York City public school

Autor/in	Brown, Amy
Titel	Waiting for Superwoman: White Female Teachers and the Construction of the "Neoliberal Savior" in a New York City public school
Quelle	In: Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 11 (2013) 2, S.123-164 (42 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-2743
Schlagwörter	Public School Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; Whites; Females; Public Schools; High Schools; Urban Schools; Neoliberalism; Race; Social Class; Popular Culture; Interviews; Teacher Student Relationship; Social Structure; Social Justice; Parent School Relationship; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? White; Weißer; Weibliches Geschlecht; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; High school; Oberschule; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Rasse; Abstammung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Popkultur; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Sozialstruktur; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung
Abstract	The narrative of gendered White savior in urban classrooms is ubiquitous not only in film (Smith, 1995, LaGravenese, 2007), but also in popular and academic literature. White female teachers are at the front of the majority of increasingly privatized U.S. classrooms (Pickower, 2009, Cochran-Smith, 2004). This article ethnographically critiques the trope of the White female savior teacher in the context of a New York City public school, which I call the College Preparatory Academy (College Prep), where I conducted two years of ethnographic teacher research. College Prep created its own in-house nonprofit organization in 2008 and is dependent on corporate charity to create a colorblind and meritocratic "college-going culture." Based on data gathered from four of College Prep's White female teachers, I create two composite characters, which I contrast with the "ideal type" White saviors found in media and literature. I analyze how my data articulates with the construction of race, class and neoliberalism in U.S. public education, and argue for possible alternatives to the troubling trope of the "White neoliberal savior" in education. (Contains 4 endnotes.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Institute for Education Policy Studies. University of Northampton, School of Education, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, UK. Tel: +44-1273-270943; e-mail: ieps@ieps.org.uk; Web site: http://www.jceps.com
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Update	2017/4/10