Educational or Social Reform? Students Inform the Debate over Improving Urban Schools

Autor/in	Taines, Cynthia
Titel	Educational or Social Reform? Students Inform the Debate over Improving Urban Schools
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 44 (2012) 3, S.247-273 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124510392566
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; Social Action; Educational Change; Educational Environment; Urban Youth; Social Change; Educational Improvement; Student Attitudes; Social Differences; Interviews; Educational Policy; Student Participation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Soziales Handeln; Bildungsreform; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Youth; Jugend; Sozialer Wandel; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Schülerverhalten; Sozialer Unterschied; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung
Abstract	The educational community is divided over which is the best approach for improving urban schools: focus on teaching and learning or underlying social inequity? This article argues that the students who attend urban schools can inform the debate. The study draws on interviews with fourteen urban youth about their participation in a community-based program that supports school activism. In the program, the students selected a surprising, and seemingly trivial, set of school problems as their top reform priorities. Yet findings reveal that from the students' vantage point, these concrete changes will enhance engagement and the perceived fairness of the educational environment. Urban students therefore bridge current policy debates by posing recommendations pertinent to both educational and social reform advocates. The study concludes with reflections on students' contributions to the content and process of urban educational reform. (Contains 1 table and 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10