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1 online resource (208 pages) |
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Front Cover; Educational Resilience in Inner-City America; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part I:Understanding Resilience; 1. Resilience in Individual Development: Successful Adaptation Despite Risk and Adversity:Ann S. Masten; 2. Variations in the Experience of Resilience Edmund W. Gordon and Lauren DoheeSong; 3. Educational Resilience in Inner Cities Margaret C. Wang, Geneva D. Haertel and Herbert J. Walberg; 4. Understanding Resilient Students: The Use of National Longitudinal Databases:Samuel S. Peng; 5. The Americanization of Resilience: Deconstructing Research Practice:Leo C. Rigsby |
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Part II: Research on Resilience: Conceptual andMethodological Considerations6. On Resilience: Questions of Validity: David W. Bartelt; 7. Resilience as a Dispositional Quality: Some Methodological Points:Joan McCord; 8. Risk and Resilience: Contextual Influences on the Development of African-American Adolescents:Ronald D. Taylor; 9. Special Education as a Resilience-Related Venture:Maynard C. Reynolds; Part III:Fostering Educational Resilience; 10. Effectiveness and Efficiency in Inner-City Public Schools: Charting School Resilience: Lascelles Anderson |
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11. Understanding Resilience: Implications for Inner-City Schools and Their Near and Far Communities:H. Jerome Freiberg12. Contextualizing Resiliency:Howard A. Liddle; 13. Organizing for Responsiveness: The Heterogeneous School Community:Diana Oxley; Epilogue: Educational Resilience -- Challenges and Prospects: Edmund W. Gordon and Margaret C. Wang; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
The story of life in inner-city America and the education of its people is often recounted as a tragedy; the ending is often predictable and usually dire, highlighting deficiency, failure, and negative trends. As with most social problems, children and youth in the inner cities are hit hardest. But this dismal view is only half of the full picture. The cities of our nation are a startling juxtaposition between the despairing and the hopeful, between disorganization and restorative potential. Alongside the poverty and unemployment, the street-fights and drug deals, are a wealth of cultural, eco |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gordon, Edmund W
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| ISBN |
9781136479038 |
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1136479031 |
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