Education reform as if student agency mattered: Academic microcultures and student identity

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 579-585

  Jackson, D Bruce ^a  

^a Tennyson High School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844438928     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170308400807     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Devon is not a real student but a composite portrait reflecting several I have worked with.
2. Laurence Steinberg, Beyond the Classroom (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
3. For example, see Ray P. McDermott, "Achieving School Failure: An Anthropological Approach to Illiteracy and Social Stratification," in George Spindler, ed., Education and Cultural Process (Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1987), pp. 172-209.
4. An exception is the admirable study of the AVID program by Hugh Mehan et al., Constructing School Success (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
5. See Signithia Fordham, Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
6. See Mehan et al., op. cit.;
7. and Deborah Meier, The Power of Their Ideas (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995).
8. Robert Marzano, A Theory-Based Meta-Analysis of Research on Instruction (Aurora, Colo.: Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory, 1998).
9. Ibid., p. 130.