Getting Schooled on Resistance: An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform

Getting Schooled on Resistance examines the experience of one school's attempt to push back on the deficit model of education and represents the overall story of urban school reform. In this book, readers will find stories and critical analysis of what happens to students, teachers and schools when their ideas and thoughts are undervalued. 

First published under the title Untangling Urban Middle School Reform: Clashing Agendas for Literacy Standards and Student Success in 2016, Getting Schooled on Resistance is timely and relevant for educators, policy makers and pre-service teachers today.  We are arguing the same "urban school reform" narrative we've been arguing since the early 80's.  We have moved from chalkboards to Smart Boards and Chromebooks, but the same narratives of students of poverty and failure exist.  It's no wonder students rely so heavily on AI for their writing when their own ideas are undervalued or marked "wrong."

Urbanski's up-close and unflinching analysis illuminates how rigid accountability structures shift power away from the teachers and administrators who know the students best and in so doing perpetuate the "bad student" moniker, all too often becoming a self-fulling prophecy. 



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Getting Schooled on Resistance: An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform

Getting Schooled on Resistance examines the experience of one school's attempt to push back on the deficit model of education and represents the overall story of urban school reform. In this book, readers will find stories and critical analysis of what happens to students, teachers and schools when their ideas and thoughts are undervalued. 

First published under the title Untangling Urban Middle School Reform: Clashing Agendas for Literacy Standards and Student Success in 2016, Getting Schooled on Resistance is timely and relevant for educators, policy makers and pre-service teachers today.  We are arguing the same "urban school reform" narrative we've been arguing since the early 80's.  We have moved from chalkboards to Smart Boards and Chromebooks, but the same narratives of students of poverty and failure exist.  It's no wonder students rely so heavily on AI for their writing when their own ideas are undervalued or marked "wrong."

Urbanski's up-close and unflinching analysis illuminates how rigid accountability structures shift power away from the teachers and administrators who know the students best and in so doing perpetuate the "bad student" moniker, all too often becoming a self-fulling prophecy. 



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Getting Schooled on Resistance: An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform

Getting Schooled on Resistance: An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform

by Urbanski
Getting Schooled on Resistance: An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform

Getting Schooled on Resistance: An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform

by Urbanski

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Overview

Getting Schooled on Resistance examines the experience of one school's attempt to push back on the deficit model of education and represents the overall story of urban school reform. In this book, readers will find stories and critical analysis of what happens to students, teachers and schools when their ideas and thoughts are undervalued. 

First published under the title Untangling Urban Middle School Reform: Clashing Agendas for Literacy Standards and Student Success in 2016, Getting Schooled on Resistance is timely and relevant for educators, policy makers and pre-service teachers today.  We are arguing the same "urban school reform" narrative we've been arguing since the early 80's.  We have moved from chalkboards to Smart Boards and Chromebooks, but the same narratives of students of poverty and failure exist.  It's no wonder students rely so heavily on AI for their writing when their own ideas are undervalued or marked "wrong."

Urbanski's up-close and unflinching analysis illuminates how rigid accountability structures shift power away from the teachers and administrators who know the students best and in so doing perpetuate the "bad student" moniker, all too often becoming a self-fulling prophecy. 




Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781960892133
Publisher: Synergy Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/29/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 112
File size: 2 MB

Table of Contents

PART I: MAPPING CONFLICTING NARRATIVES

1.Introducing the Power in Story and the Story of Power

Rosa Parks Middle School and the Writing Project 

Urban School Reform, Testing, and Accountability

Reframing the Story and Framing the Book

2.Rosa Parks Middle School: Contrasting and Conflicting Stories

Figuring the Story

Rosa Parks Middle School from Our Outsider/Consultant Perspective

Rosa Parks Middle School through the Administrator's Eyes

Moving Toward Analysis

3.Mapping Social Reproduction: Competing Systems of Order and Control

Activity Theory and Figured Worlds: Tools for Analysis

School Uniforms: Inscribing Narrative Theories-in-Use on Students' Bodies

Planning Meetings: Order and Control over Teachers

Negotiating Narratives to "Be" Teacher or Student

PART II: HOW TO "BE" WRITING TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

4.Narrowing the Lens: Teaching as Narrative Negotiation

A Word About Genre Theory: What We Were Attempting to Do

Narratives of Convergence and Resistance

Theories for Constructing Identities

Competing Narratives of Writing

Diary Writing: A Narrative of Convergence

Daybook Writing: Narratives of Resistance and Compliance

Negotiating Good Teacher Identities in a Complex World

5.Reproducing "Good Student" Writing

Critical Discourse Analysis: A Micro Analysis of Language and Identity

Leslie: Good Student Writers Repeat

Erin: Good Students Try to Recreate Success

Abigail: Good Students Test Well

Reproducing Good "At-Risk" Student

6.Being "Bad": Making Critique Visible

Jada: Resisting Through Innovation

Trying On the American Dream

Taking a Quiz

Moments of Possibility

7.Conclusion: A Call for Critique of the Testing and Accountability Narrative of Schooling

Clashing Narratives and Power: A Recap

Agency: Room for Change

Steps Toward Change

Images of Hope

Getting Schooled on Resistance: Conclusions

Appendixes

References

Index

About the Author


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