Rejects the essentialist notion of the need to exclude children with disabilities from the school community, tracing the origin of disability segregation to the advent of western colonialism and demonstrating the symbiotic relationship between cultural and racial oppression and the oppression of people with disabilities. The paper strongly…

Examines the potential conflict between an explicit educational manifesto and the implicit, dominant cultural resources that may interfere with the actualization of the manifesto, illustrating, through the qualitative analysis of an educational activity involving Israeli high school students, the dynamics by which an educational manifesto can be…

Uses John Dewey's pragmatism to theorize a relevant and effective understanding of collegiate community within liberal culture, suggesting that if multiculturalism were understood and enacted on college campuses in Deweyan ways, it would introduce a method of thinking or intelligent learning that would make the ideal of community possible for…

Surveyed urban high school seniors regarding the balance between civility and incivility. Students were more polite than rude toward teachers (though they cursed frequently); more polite toward teachers than students; much more likely to curse around students than teachers; and, in their own opinions, capable of being polite or crude. Cursing at…

Examines the history of students who cannot do what educators want them to do, noting how educators have labeled poor performers in different periods and how these labels reflect both attitudes and institutional conditions. The paper summarizes four major historical explanations for why children fail and explores implications of this history for…

Used data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study to examine whether teachers provide students with social capital and whether that social capital increases students' likelihood of completing high school. Results show that teachers are an important source of social capital, which significantly reduces the probability of dropping out,…

Argues that the anticipation or reality of pregnancy and motherhood shape urban girls' participation in their senior year of high school. Interviews and analysis of students' classroom talk and writing show frequent references to motherhood as girls plan ambitiously for their futures and worry about their children. The media's discourses of…

Examined how high school teachers made meaning of a change process involving teamwork, interdisciplinary teaching, and block scheduling. Document analysis, observation, and interview data indicated that uncertainty and doubt were the pervading themes and had a critical effect on the teaching team's ability to move to interdisciplinary teaching.…

Considers the public nature of charter schools, comparing Michigan charter school reformers' rhetoric with that of 19th century common school reformers, noting the conflicting definitions of what constitutes public schooling and suggesting that charter schools frame education principally as a consumer good, thus privatizing the purpose of public…

Presents three arguments highlighting discontinuity in Dewey's philosophical views, critiquing one current account of the development of Dewey's thinking based on the assumption of continuity; arguing that Dewey changed his views about the role of action, language, and quality in knowledge construction; and presenting examples showing how closely…

Responds to an article that pointed to discontinuity in Dewey's philosophical views and critiqued a comprehensive current account of the development of Dewey's thinking based on the assumption of continuity. This article argues that the discontinuity thesis is unsustainable. (SM)

Suggests reasons why education is difficult and contentious, arguing that educational thinking draws on only three fundamental ideas (socializing the young, shaping the minds by a disciplined academic curriculum, and facilitating the development of students' potential) and that the problems in education are due to these ideas, which are fatally…

Uses the authors' experiences with a professional development project to propose a model of teacher community, describing the challenge of negotiating the essential tension of teacher community and the challenge of maintaining diverse perspectives within a social group. A model of the markers of community formation as manifested in participants'…

Proposes a curriculum for teacher learning over time, examining the fit between conventional teacher education, induction, professional development, and the challenges of learning to teach in reform-minded ways. The paper examines: central tasks of teacher preparation, induction, and development; how well conventional arrangements address these…

Introduces emotional geographies, which describe patterns of closeness and distance in human interactions that shape the emotions people experience about relationships to themselves, others, and the world around them. Using an interview-based study of elementary and secondary teachers, the paper describes five emotional geographies of…