Minority education : anthropological perspectives /

Minority education : anthropological perspectives / edited by Evelyn Jacob, Cathie Jordan. - Norwood, NJ : Ablex Pub. Corp., c1993. - viii, 281 p. ; 24 cm. - Social and policy issues in education . - Social and policy issues in education. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Understanding minority education : framing the issues / Evelyn Jacob and Cathie Jordan -- Understanding educational anthropology : concepts and methods / Evelyn Jacob and Cathie Jordan -- Cultural continuity and discontinuity. Transformation and school success : the politics and culture of educational achievement / Frederick Erickson -- Explaining school failure, producing school success : two cases / Lynn A. Vogt, Cathie Jordan, and Roland G. Tharp -- Change as the goal of educational research / Luis C. Moll and Stephen Diaz -- Societal forces and minority responses. Frameworks-- variability in minority school performance : a problem in search of an explanation / John U. Ogbu -- The school performance of immigrant minorities : a comparative view / Margaret A. Gibson -- "Becoming somebody" : Central American immigrants in U.S. inner-city schools / Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco. (cont.) Additional and alternative perspectives. Building our house from the rubbish tree : minority-directed education / Barbara Harrison -- Constructing cultural differences and educational achievement in schools / Margaret A. Eisenhart and M. Elizabeth Graue -- Resistance and compliance in minority classrooms / John D'Amato -- Failure's failure / David Smith ... [et al.] -- Policy and practice considerations. Ethnography and policy : a catalytic combination for change / David M. Fetterman -- Contexts of education, contexts of application : anthropological perspectives and educational practice / Cathie Jordan and Evelyn Jacob.

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Minorities--Education--Social aspects--United States.
Educational anthropology--United States.
Etnische minderheden.
Onderwijs in eigen taal en cultuur.
Onderwijsbeleid.

LC 3731 / .M5587 1992