Metropedagogy: Power, Justice, and the Urban Classroom

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BRILL, Jan 1, 2006 - Education - 263 pages
What might it mean to develop a rigorous, just, and practical urban education? Such a question takes on new importance in the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, as urban educators find themselves besieged with test-driven, standardized curricula promoted in the name of fairness, educational excellence, and egalitarianism.
 

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II CONTEXT
41
III POWER
85
RACE CLASS AND GENDER
113
V JUSTICEBASED REFORM
155
VI TEACHER EDUCATION
193
VII POLICY
221
About the contributors
247
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