Corridor Cultures : Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School / Maryann Dickar.
2008
LB3605 .D53 2008
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Title
Corridor Cultures : Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School / Maryann Dickar.
Author
Dickar, Maryann, author.
ISBN
9780814785263
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814785263.001.0001 doi
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LB3605 .D53 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
373.18
Summary
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, Corridor Cultures examines the ways in which school spaces are culturally produced, offering insight into how urban students engage their schooling. Focusing on the tension between the student-dominated halls and the teacher-dominated classrooms and drawing on insights from critical geographers and anthropology, it provides new perspectives on the complex relationships between Black students and schools to better explain the persistence of urban school failure and to imagine ways of resolving the contradictions that undermine the educational prospects of too many of the nations' children.Dickar explores competing discourses about who students are, what the purpose of schooling should be, and what knowledge is valuable as they become spatialized in daily school life. This spatial analysis calls attention to the contradictions inherent in official school discourses and those generated by students and teachers more locally.By examining the form and substance of student/school engagement, Corridor Cultures argues for a more nuanced and broader framework that reads multiple forms of resistance and recognizes the ways students themselves are conflicted about schooling.
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Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; ; 15
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "The Covenant Made Visible"
2. "In a way it protects us and in a way . . . it keeps us back"
3. "It's just all about being popular"
4. "If I can't be myself, what's the point of being here?"
5. "You have to change your whole attitude toward everything"
6. "You know the real deal, but this is just saying you got their deal"
7. A Eulogy for Renaissance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "The Covenant Made Visible"
2. "In a way it protects us and in a way . . . it keeps us back"
3. "It's just all about being popular"
4. "If I can't be myself, what's the point of being here?"
5. "You have to change your whole attitude toward everything"
6. "You know the real deal, but this is just saying you got their deal"
7. A Eulogy for Renaissance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author