| #3235009 in Books | NYU Press | 2008-11-01 | 2008-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.56 x6.00l,.60 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Enjoyable and insightful anthropology of an urban high school|By G. Joy Robins|I thoroughly enjoyed this deftly written exploration of an inner-city high school. I have often wondered when someone was going to seriously ask students what was going on in their world. I am reminded of Oscar Lewis'"culture of poverty".
Here we explore the tension between "hall culture"|||“Dickar’s analysis is sophisticated without resorting to jargon-laden prose, and should be relevant to and consumable by students, teachers, administrators, policy makers and academics interested in urban education reform, critical analyzes of rac
For many students, the classroom is not the central focus of school. The school's corridors and doorways are areas largely given over to student control, and it is here that they negotiate their cultural identities and status among their peer groups. The flavor of this “corridor culture” tends to reflect the values and culture of the surrounding community.
Based on participant observation in a racially segregated high school in New York City, Cor...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School (Qualitative Studies in Psychology) | Maryann Dickar.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
