Stubborn roots : race, culture, and inequality in U.S. and South African schools

Stubborn roots : race, culture, and inequality in U.S. and South African schools / Prudence L. Carter.

The author shows how school communities can better incorporate previously disadvantaged groups and engender equity by addressing socio-cultural contexts and promoting 'cultural flexibility'. She also raises timely questions about the social, political, and philosophical purposes of multira...

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Main Author: Carter, Prudence L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Educational equalization > United States > Case studies.
Educational equalization > South Africa > Case studies.
Discrimination in education > United States > Case studies.
Discrimination in education > South Africa > Case studies.
Multiculturalism > United States > Case studies.
Multiculturalism > South Africa > Case studies.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Discrimination in education
Educational equalization
Multiculturalism
South Africa
United States
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Distinctions and convergences: a brief history of race and education in the United States and South Africa
  • Selecting "good" schools in the U.S. and South Africa
  • Paradoxes of opportunity: resources, boundaries, and organizational-racial habitus
  • Student cultural flexibility: the (un) making of multicultural navigators
  • The more things change, the more threatening they feel: white youths' attitudes on equity
  • Equity and empathy: growing equality of opportunity
  • Stubborn roots: weeding out educational inequality.

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