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Toxic Schools
Bowen Paulle
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Description for Toxic Schools
Paperback. From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the author paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in real time, with the chronic stress, peer group dynamics, and subtle power politics of urban educational spaces in the perpetual shadow of aggression. Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1KBBEY; JFFA; JNH; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society-and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe nonselective city schools-segregated, unequal, violent-none comes close to characterizing their systemic dysfunction in high-poverty neighborhoods. The most accurate word is toxic. When Bowen Paulle speaks of toxicity, he speaks of educational worlds dominated by intimidation and anxiety, by ambivalence, ... Read more
Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society-and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe nonselective city schools-segregated, unequal, violent-none comes close to characterizing their systemic dysfunction in high-poverty neighborhoods. The most accurate word is toxic. When Bowen Paulle speaks of toxicity, he speaks of educational worlds dominated by intimidation and anxiety, by ambivalence, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226066417
SKU
V9780226066417
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About Bowen Paulle
Bowen Paulle teaches at the University of Amsterdam. A native New Yorker, he lives in the Netherlands.
Reviews for Toxic Schools
"Toxic Schools is an ambitious and original treatment of violence in inner-city schools, distinguished by Bowen Paulle's sophisticated integration of theoretical constructs throughout the discussion of his empirical materials. This highly instructive cross-site comparison will appeal not just to scholars of education and school administrators. It is relayed in such visceral terms that it will likely appeal to a broad ... Read more