The authors use Noddings (1984; 1992; 1999) and Beauboeuf-Lafontant's (2002) theories of caring in education to look at how race (conceptualized to include Whiteness) affected the implementation of the A+ Schools Program, an arts-based reform designed to augment student achievement and appreciation for the arts. They examine the implementation of…

Explores the power of implicit and explicit metaphors to inhibit or prompt school change, using 5 years of case study data from a North Carolina elementary school to illustrate the shifting interpretations of an arts-based reform as implemented in one urban elementary school. The paper asserts that metaphors gave school personnel and researchers…

In this paper, the authors depict performance ethnography as having multiple ethical dimensions and multiple implications for the relationships between the evaluator and program participants. They have found performance ethnography to be essentially an intimate form of representation that has tremendous implications for the ownership of…