19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City

by Shirley R. Steinberg (Editor), Joe L. Kincheloe (Editor), Deborah A. Shanley (Foreword)

"19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City, the definitive overview of urban education, is provocative in style and rich in detail. Emphasizing the complexity of urban education, Steinberg, Kincheloe, and the authors ask direct questions about what urban teachers need to know. Their answers are guaranteed to generate both classroom discussion and discourse in the field for years to come. This is a volume that should be used in every school of education. Important topics include: difference in urban education; motives for teaching in city settings; understanding and dealing with drop-outs; the role of counseling in urban schools; identifying resistance in urban settings; gangs and gang membership; evaluation and assessment; unique issues relating to disabilities; bilingual education; unique issues in urban literacy; urban students and the writing process; technology in urban classrooms; the value of teaching science in urban settings; the role of aesthetics in city schools; health risks among city students; understanding the urban family.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Teaching

296 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

Associate professor at McGill University in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. A former theatre director, Shirley is a contributor to The Globe and Mail and the Montreal Gazette as a cultural critic. She holds a PhD in cultural studies from Pennsylvania State University.

Reviews

[Connor Oswald]

Not only are there 19 questions regarding urban teaching in this book, there are 19 (long) answers too. I've been reading this book for my multicultural/ urban education class and I think I've gotten a lot out of the content. The twenty-ish authors of this compendium probably reference over a combined millennia of scholarly works so I'm sure I haven't even scratched the surface of any one topic area. Some of the authors provide better insight over others but still a great read!

If you are going into teaching or into urban education it is definitely worth skimming the content presented here.