John U. Ogbu

Black American Students in An Affluent Suburb (eBook, ePUB)

A Study of Academic Disengagement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on the role of community forces in academic disengagement among Black American Students at every social class level; the study extends Ogbu's ongoing research on minority education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135625535
• Artikelnr.: 42711268

Autorenporträt

John U. Ogbu University of California, Berkeley

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgment and Dedication. Introduction. Part I:
Black Academic Achievement and Its Explanations. Black-White Academic
Achievement Gap. Academic Disengagement in Shaker Heights. Explaining the
Academic Gap; Conventional and Alternative Explanations. Part II: Societal
and School Forces. Race Relations. Pygmalion in History, Society, and
School. Leveling. Counselors, Teachers, and Discipline. Part III:
Community Forces. Opportunity Structure: Schooling and Getting Ahead.
Collective Identity, Culture, and Language. Peer Pressures. The Family.
Community Forces and Academic Disengagement: A Summary of Findings. Policy
Implications.