【目录】

 Deborah A. Shanley: Foreword - Joe L. Kincheloe: Why a Book on Urban Education? - Philip M. Anderson/Judith P. Summerfield: Why Is Urban Education Different from Suburban and Rural Education? - Rebecca A. Goldstein: Who Are Our Urban Students and What Makes Them So «Different?» - Florence Rubinson: Urban Dropouts: Why So Many and What Can Be Done? - David Forbes: What Is the Role of Counseling in Urban Schools? - Luis F. Mirón: How Do We Locate Resistance in Urban Schools? - Haroon Kharem: What Does It Mean to Be in a Gang? - Eleanor Armour-Thomas: What Is the Nature of Evaluation and Assessment in an Urban Context? - Judith Hill: What Is Urban Education in an Age of Standardization and Scripted Learning? - Joe Valentine: How Can We Transgress in the Field of Disabilities in Urban Education? - Alma Rubal-Lopez: Does Bilingual Education Matter? - Elizabeth Quintero: Can Literacy be Taught Successfully in Urban Schools? - Winthrop Holder: How Can Urban Students Become Writers? - Vanessa Domine: How Important is Technoloy in Urban Education? - Koshi Dhingra: How Should Science Be Taught in Urban Settings? - Roymieco A. Carter: Can Aesthetics Be Taught in Urban Education? - Leah Henry-Beauchamp/Tina Siedler: Why Is Health an Urban Issue? Asthma: A Case in Point - Katia Goldfarb: Who Is Included in the Urban Family? - Derrick Griffith/Kecia Hayes/John Pascarella: Why Teach in Urban Settings? - Shirley R. Steinberg: What Didnt We Ask? Keepin It Real.

【作者简介】

 Shirley R. Steinberg is Associate Professor and head of graduate literacy at Brooklyn College. She has written numerous books and articles in urban education, cultural studies, popular culture, and literacy. She is the editor of Multi/Intercultural Conversations: A Reader; Thirteen Questions: Reframing Educations Conversation; and Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood (with Joe Kincheloe); and Teaching Teachers: Building a Quality School of Education (with Joe Kincheloe and Alberto Bursztyn). She is the founding editor of Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education.

Joe L. Kincheloe is Professor of education at the CUNY Graduate Center Urban Education Program and at Brooklyn College. He has written books and articles in pedagogy, research, urban studies, cognition, curriculum, and cultural studies. He is the author of Teachers As Researchers: Qualitative Paths to Empowerment; How Do We Tell the Workers? The Socio-Economic Foundations of Work and Vocational Education; The Sign of the Burger: McDonalds and the Culture of Power; and Changing Multiculturalism: New Times, New Curriculum (with Shirley Steinberg).