Theory and educational research toward critical social explanation /

• Main Author: Anyon, Jean.
• Other Authors: Dumas, Michael J.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Critical youth studies.
• Subjects: Educational sociology > Research.; Critical theory.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural. > Anthropology; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Cultural Policy. > Public Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.; Pädagogische Soziologie.; Kritische Theorie.; Electronic books.
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Throughout U.S. history, education policies, practices, and politics have been described and tested to yield empirical data, often with little attempt to place findings in a larger theoretical infrastructure that could provide them with increased explanatory, critical, or even liberatory power. This...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Critical social theory, educational research, and intellectual agency / Jean Anyon
• Critical social theory and the study of urban school discipline : the culture of control in a Bronx high school / Kathleen Nolan
• Personal reflection : a theoretical journey
• Theorizing student poetry as resistance to school-based surveillance : not any theory will do / Jen Weiss
• Personal reflection : finding theory
• Theorizing redistribution and recognition in urban education research : "how do we get dictionaries at Cleveland?" / Michale J. Dumas
• Personal reflections : early lessons
• Theorizing Black : an approach to participatory policy analysis / Eve Tuck
• Personal reflection : reading and writing theory
• Low-income Latina parents, school choice, and Pierre Bourdieu / Madeline Pérez
• Personal reflection : my relationship with theory
• Queer theory and teen sexuality : unclear lines / Darla Linville
• Personal reflection : queer teens and queer theory
• Epilogue / Michelle Fine.