Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students
Autor Denise Clark Popeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2003
This book offers a revealing—and troubling—view of today’s high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Veteran teacher Denise Pope follows five highly regarded students through a school year and discovers that these young people believe getting ahead requires manipulating the system, scheming, lying, and cheating. On the one hand, they work hard in school, participate in extracurricular activities, serve their communities, earn awards and honors, and appear to uphold school values. But on the other hand, they feel that in order to get ahead they must compromise their values. In short, they “do school”—that is, they are not really engaged with learning nor can they commit to such values as integrity and community.
The words and actions of these five students—two boys and three girls from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds—underscore the frustrations of being caught in a “grade trap” that pins future success to high grades and test scores. Their stories raise critical questions that are too important for parents, educators, and community leaders to ignore. Are schools cultivating an environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, cooperation, and integrity? Or are they fostering anxiety, deception, and hostility? Do today’s schools inadvertently impede the very values they claim to embrace? Is the “success” that current assessment practices measure the kind of success we want for our children?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300098334
ISBN-10: 0300098332
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300098332
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Recenzii
“A scholarly study presented with great clarity and enlivened by vignettes of student life, this work provides a fresh perspective on the state of American education, and yet another reason to press for systematic reform.”—Publishers Weekly
“A revealing look at the quandaries of today’s high school students.”—Library Journal
“[An] eye-opening look at the underpinnings of public education.”—Stephanie Zvirin, Booklist
“A penetrating and troubling look at students in an American high school. . . . Pope allows her students to speak for themselves and their words are chilling, but they ring true to anyone familiar with the Bay Area high school scene.”—Jill Wolfson, San Jose Mercury News
“This work will interest specialists in anthropology of education, curriculum and instruction, secondary education, and educational leadership, as well as secondary school teachers, counselors, principals, and parents. Readers interested in qualitative and naturalistic research on young people will find a useful list of references and a well-constructed, concise, lucid, and credible write-up.”—Choice
Named as a 2001 Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal
“Doing School illuminates important issues in curriculum studies. In addition, it provides an accessible model of qualitative educational inquiry. My students regard it as one of their most helpful texts.”—Richard Siegesmund, University of Georgia
“I have used Doing School in both undergraduate and graduate courses, in both places to great effect. In short, Professor Pope’s book is fabulous not only for the accessibility of its writing, the careful portraits she paints and the arguments she draws from them, but also for its methodological innovativeness and interpretive sophistication.”—Simone Schweber, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“Many of my students remarked that Doing School reflected their own secondary school experience, and that reading it forced them to consider that experience in light of their preparation to teach. Students also commented that they sat down to read the first chapter, and simply read the entire book in one sitting—it was that compelling and that well written.”—Charles Dorn, Santa Clara University
“Doing School is a loud wake-up call about the disconnect between what our best high schools and colleges say they are all about and the pressure they put on students. The book raises disturbing questions about the kind of ‘high standards’ we are pushing for in our schools. It should inform any discussion of what it means to be an educated person in the 21st century.”—Edward B. Fiske, editor of The Fiske Guide to Colleges
“Doing School gives us a penetrating view of how students cope with the pressures of schooling. Just how they cope should concern all who want from education substantially more than the superficial accommodation that even high achieving students display. Pope’s book should be read by policymakers at all levels of education.”—Elliot W. Eisner, Stanford University
“A revealing look at the quandaries of today’s high school students.”—Library Journal
“[An] eye-opening look at the underpinnings of public education.”—Stephanie Zvirin, Booklist
“A penetrating and troubling look at students in an American high school. . . . Pope allows her students to speak for themselves and their words are chilling, but they ring true to anyone familiar with the Bay Area high school scene.”—Jill Wolfson, San Jose Mercury News
“This work will interest specialists in anthropology of education, curriculum and instruction, secondary education, and educational leadership, as well as secondary school teachers, counselors, principals, and parents. Readers interested in qualitative and naturalistic research on young people will find a useful list of references and a well-constructed, concise, lucid, and credible write-up.”—Choice
Named as a 2001 Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal
“Doing School illuminates important issues in curriculum studies. In addition, it provides an accessible model of qualitative educational inquiry. My students regard it as one of their most helpful texts.”—Richard Siegesmund, University of Georgia
“I have used Doing School in both undergraduate and graduate courses, in both places to great effect. In short, Professor Pope’s book is fabulous not only for the accessibility of its writing, the careful portraits she paints and the arguments she draws from them, but also for its methodological innovativeness and interpretive sophistication.”—Simone Schweber, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“Many of my students remarked that Doing School reflected their own secondary school experience, and that reading it forced them to consider that experience in light of their preparation to teach. Students also commented that they sat down to read the first chapter, and simply read the entire book in one sitting—it was that compelling and that well written.”—Charles Dorn, Santa Clara University
“Doing School is a loud wake-up call about the disconnect between what our best high schools and colleges say they are all about and the pressure they put on students. The book raises disturbing questions about the kind of ‘high standards’ we are pushing for in our schools. It should inform any discussion of what it means to be an educated person in the 21st century.”—Edward B. Fiske, editor of The Fiske Guide to Colleges
“Doing School gives us a penetrating view of how students cope with the pressures of schooling. Just how they cope should concern all who want from education substantially more than the superficial accommodation that even high achieving students display. Pope’s book should be read by policymakers at all levels of education.”—Elliot W. Eisner, Stanford University
Notă biografică
Denise Pope is a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education.