Self and School Success : Voices and Lore of Inner-City Students.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Identity Formation And Adolescent Selves -- Listening To Student Voices -- Plan Of The Book -- 1. The Career Self -- An Age Of Desperation? -- Racism, Education, And The Job Ceiling -- School And Careers -- The Good-, The Bad-, And The Not-Me -- 2. The Sexual Self -- The Onset Of Sexual Activity -- Sex Education, Contraception, And AIDS -- Sexual Orientation -- The Sexual Self And School -- 3. The Peer Self -- There Are Friends And There Are Friends -- Peers And Moral Development -- Peer Subculture -- School Success And The Peer Self -- 4. The Family Self -- Families And Children -- Family Problems -- Single-Parent Families -- Mothers And Daughters -- Families As Transmitters Of Culture -- Family, Peer, Sexual, And Career Selves -- 5. Interlude-The Voices of Parents -- Fearful And Harried Voices -- Critical Voices -- Hopeful Voices -- The Parent Self -- 6. The Student Self -- Between Success And Failure -- Education And The Future -- Perceptions Of School -- School And The Student Self -- 7. Interlude-The Voices Of Teachers -- Power And Powerlessness -- Parents -- Colleagues -- Students -- Conclusion: The Teacher Self -- 8. The Affiliating Self -- Affiliations -- The Spiritual Self -- Communities Within Communities -- 9. Will-A Student Theory of Success -- Constellations Of Success -- Will -- Breaking The Will -- Strengthening The Will -- Will And Boredom -- Conclusion -- 10. Voices, Selves, and Symbolic Universes -- An Etic View Of Success -- The Different Voice -- The Cultural Psychology Of Voice, Self, And Symbolic Universes -- 11. Small Is Better -- Needs Of Students And Teachers -- River East Elementary School -- Central Park East Secondary School -- Restructuring For Success -- Appendix: Ethnographic Inquiry and Education -- The Method -- The Text.

References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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