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Publication Date: 2000
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"Struggling for the Soul: The Politics of Schooling and the Construction of the Teacher" by T. Popkewitz. Book Review.
Corbett, Mike
Journal of Research in Rural Education, v16 n2 p141-45 Fall 2000
Reviews an ethnographic analysis of Teach for America, a 1990 educational reform program that illustrates how underlying assumptions about "marginal" urban and rural students and their "deficient" environments solidify existing power structures, acculturate students to middle-class norms, generate resistance to teachers, and ensure failure to achieve real change. Discusses four problems with the book, including lack of students' perspectives. (Contains 26 references.) (TD)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Book Reviews, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Labeling (of Persons), Middle Class Standards, Politics of Education, Power Structure, Role of Education, Rural Education, Self Concept, Social Bias, Stereotypes, Teacher Role, Urban Education
Publication Type: Book/Product Reviews; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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