"What the Real World in Schools is Like": Urban Youth in Dialogue About Educational Inequality

Urban Review

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 414-435

  Taines, Cynthia ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Educational inequality; Paulo Freire; Social inquiry; Urban youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860390439     PISSN: 00420972     EISSN: 15731960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11256-010-0169-3     Document Type: Article

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