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Curriculum and students in classrooms : everyday urban education in an era of standardization / Walter S. Gershon

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Gershon, Walter S.
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Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.
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Contents
Geared for success : a balanced curriculum -- Skills, tips, and scripts: a masquerade of balance -- Curriculum delivery in Mr. Jimenez and Mr. Gutierrez's classrooms -- Mr. Jimenez and Mr. Gutierrez : enacted pedagogy and curriculum -- Students, studenting, and daily classroom lessons -- Students' classroom roles and the classroom underlife : (un)intended social consequences at a good urban school -- Windup and a takedown.
Summary
This book explores overlooked aspects of education via relationships among curriculum, teachers, and students. It shows how curriculum causes discriminatory practices, how a need for correctness narrows academic and social life in classrooms, and how the bargains teachers and students make trade educational duties for freedoms from constraints.
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9781498524957 (Electronic)
1498524958 (Electronic)
9781498524940 (cloth ; alk. paper)
149852494X
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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