"Cultural Collision and Collusion" addresses the complexity of problems that surround youth culture and school culture. By broadening the scholarly dialogue and examining and disseminating relevant research to practitioners, the book seeks to provide insight into youth culture and some manifestations of popular culture (e.g., hip-hop). In…

The purpose of this article is to synthesize the relevant research literatures in order to conceptualize Black immigrant students' socialization and identity transformation, thereby finding more effective ways to work with this group. Providing Asian immigrant students as a comparison group, this article identifies and analyzes the commonalities…

The American educational system reproduces an unequal system of social classes by emphasizing separate work skills for different social classes and by transmitting class-based social and power ideologies. A pedagogical model incorporating dual social consciousness and a dialectical view of social change is presented. (JN)

A mechanism which differentiates lower track and regular track curriculum is the teachers' perceptions of the tracked students. This subjective method of defining the what and how of learning is a somewhat autonomous sociocultural, political process which is capable of altering general perceptions of social differentiation. (VM)

Focuses on ways that the present colonial or postcolonial status of societies in Tonga influences the relationship between traditional and Western forms of schooling. The impact of having been a former colonized people incorporated into a colonizing nation is most apparent in the study of Hawaiian preschool education. (SLD)