Crossfireon the Streets and into the Classroom (original) (raw)

Cybernetics and Human Knowing - CHK

Abstract

:As this nation shifts towards an educational focus of “teaching for social justice,” this critical ethnography,illuminates the importance of considering overlapping fields to help understand what is occurring within inner-city neighborhood,classrooms. While prior attention has focused on the apparent deficiencies of urban schools, such discussions do not take into account the complex sociocultural issues associated with a classroom field. In this paper, I provide descriptive narratives ofthe unfolding day by day events occurring within urban neighborhoods, as well as common practices, shared strategies of action and a “sense of the game” embodied within urban youth as they enter the workplace ,and a chemistry ,classroom of a ,comprehensive ,neighborhood ,high school in Philadelphia. Moreover, by identifying and interpreting the patterns of coherence as well as the contradictions of what is occurring on both the meso and micro levels across these various fields, I offer alternative ...

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