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- Title
Identity for Sale: The Limits of Racial Reform in Urban Schools.
- Authors
Ginwright, Shawn A.
- Abstract
When multicultural education emerges in urban schools, it usually addresses educational inequality by focusing on cultural histories, principles, and pedagogies. The fundamental argument is that students who perform poorly in school do so in part because the curriculum they encounter has little relevance to their lives and culture. If culturally based education is most commonly practiced in low-income, poor urban schools, what limits does poverty place on this type of educational reform? I provide a case study of a reform effort at urban high school in Oakland, California, which used an Afrocentric curriculum as a means to improve academic performance. I argue that the effort was ineffective because the project failed to consider the ways in which poverty influenced the identities of the students within the school.
- Subjects
OAKLAND (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States; EDUCATIONAL change; URBAN schools
- Publication
Urban Review, 2000, Vol 32, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
0042-0972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1005194802544