The Critical Middle School Reader

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-95069-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1239 g

The Critical Middle School Reader is the first collection of essays that presents multiple critical perspectives on adolescence and middle level education, including critical theory and pedagogy, cultural studies of youth, critical psychology, postmodernism and contemporary feminism. This accessible, efficient, one volume compilation will introduce students, pre-service teachers, and teacher educators to a range of perspectives and will guide them through a thoughtful analysis and critique of both classical and critical texts. Designed to challenge and reframe the basic assumptions about youth development and public education, the collection will support current and prospective teachers and school administrators in their efforts to imagine and create libratory possibilities for youth. It will be an indispensable text in middle level education and adolescent development courses.

> key readings on the theory and practice of middle level education provide a thorough, balanced overview of the field
> chapter themes tackle traditional and critical stances promoting opportunities to increase critical consciousness
> section introductions end with a collection of Discussion Questions to make critical perspectives accessible for teacher educators and pre-service teachers
> recommended readings appear at the end of each section to provide students with future reading and further study

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Enora R.

Saltman, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Weiterführende Schulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by James Beane

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I: The Social Construction of Adolescence

1. From Adolescence
G. Stanley Hall

2. The Role of Pubertal Processes

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Edward O. Reiter

3. "Teaching Our Sons"
Gail Bederman

4. Denaturalizing Adolescence: The Politics of Contemporary Representations
Nancy Lesko

5. "Bashing Youth" and "Wild in Deceit"
Mike Males

6. The American Child and Other Cultural Inventions
William Kessen

7. The Invention of the Sexual Adolescent
Jeffrey P. Moran

8. Nymphet Fantasies: Child Beauty Pageants and the Politics of Innocence

Henry A. Giroux

Suggested Readings for Further Study

Section II: The Middle School Concept and the Purpose of Education

9. Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the21st Century
Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development

10. From The Emergent Middle School
William Alexander

11. The Future of Middle Level Education: Optimistic and Pessimistic Views
John H. Lounsbury and Gordon F. Vars

12. Back to the Future: Middle Schools and the Turning Points Report

Nancy Lesko

13. Schooling in Capitalist America
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

14. Rivers of Fire: Amoco's iMPACT on Education
Kenneth J. Saltman and Robin Truth Goodman

15. From Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire

Suggested Readings for Further Study

Section III: The Construction of Identity

16. Identity: Youth and Crisis
Erik Erikson

17. Racial Identity Formation and Transformation
Janie Victoria Ward

18. Freedom for Some, Discipline for "Others": The Structure of Inequity in Education

Enora R. Brown

19. From Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
Stuart Hall

20. From Bad Boys: Public Schooling in the Making of Black Masculinity
Ann Arnett Ferguson

21. Canal Town Girls
Julia Hall

22. Subtractive Schooling and Divisions among Youth
Angela Valenzuela

23. Asian Americans: The Absent/Silenced/Model Minority
Stacey Lee

24. Lesbian and Gay adolescents: Social and Developmental Considerations
Dennis Anderson, M.D.

25. English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America

Donaldo Macedo

Suggested Readings for Further Study

Section IV: Curriculum, Assessment, and Critical Pedagogy

26. A Special Kind of Unity
James A. Beane

27. Critical Pedagogy and the Social Construction of Knowledge
Peter McLaren

28. Social Class and School Knowledge
Jean Anyon

29. Teaching and Learning Mathematics for Social Justice in an Urban, Latino School
Eric Gutstein

30. "You can't just say that the only ones who can speak are those who agree with your positions": Political discourse in the classroom
Melinda Fine

31. "How come there are no brothers on that list?": Hearing the hard questions all children ask
Kathe Jervis

32. Standardization, defensive teaching, and the problems of control
Linda M. McNeil

Suggested Readings for Further Study
Afterword by Mara Sapon Shevin
Permissions
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Enora R. Brown is Brown is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago
Her current work in human development and education examines the theories and assumptions that undergird traditional psychology and constructions of youth identities.

Kenneth J. Saltman is Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Policy at DePaul University in Chicago and the author most recently of The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Schools (Routledge 2005) and co-editor of Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools (Routledge 2003).