What Is Care? The Birth and Identity Formation of an Alternative Public Middle School
Hogan, Maureen Patricia
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Description
Title
What Is Care? The Birth and Identity Formation of an Alternative Public Middle School
Author(s)
Hogan, Maureen Patricia
Issue Date
2000
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Bruce, Bertram C.
Department of Study
Education
Discipline
Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
"Drawing on textual analyses of the school's handbook, institutional documents, public policy and popular media; along with copious field notes and open-ended interviews with local politicians, administrators, faculty and children; I argue that though CARE strives to be a place for innovation, hope and academic possibility, the assumptions of cultural deficit, and its attendant solution, behavior modification permeate its character. Thus, I apprehend CARE as a crisis heterotopia, a convoluted and curious site devoid of historical memory as well as theoretical and political situativity, and one that beckons answers to questions of white privilege and racial equality. I further argue that the deficit model for understanding differential academic achievement, masked in deceptively ambiguous discourses of ""risk"" and ""alternative,"" is alive and well in the late nineties and will surely creep into the next century."
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