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Funds of Knowledge, Community Cultural Wealth, and the Forms of Capital: Strengths, Tensions, and Practical Considerations
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Rios-Aguilar, Cecilia; Neri, Rebecca Colina – Urban Education, 2023
Funds of Knowledge (FK), Community Cultural Wealth (CCW), and Bourdieu's analysis of capital (BAC) have each been applied in powerful ways to address complex issues of urban education; however, the overlaps and tensions between them have been largely underexplored. When brought together, these three economic metaphors--funds, wealth,…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Communities of Practice, Urban Education, Social Justice
Making Justice Peripheral by Constructing Practice as "Core": How the Increasing Prominence of Core Practices Challenges Teacher Education
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Philip, Thomas M.; Souto-Manning, Mariana; Anderson, Lauren; Horn, Ilana; J. Carter Andrews, Dorinda; Stillman, Jamy; Varghese, Manka – Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
Reformers are increasingly calling for and adopting practice-based approaches to teacher preparation, with particular emphasis on identifying and centering core practices. In this article, we argue that organizing teacher education around core practices brings its own risks, including the risk of peripheralizing equity and justice. Situating our…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Teacher Education, Risk, Equal Education
Predictors and Correlates of Academic Performance among Urban African American Adolescents
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Nebbitt, Von E.; Lombe, Margaret; LaPoint, Velma; Bryant, Dawn – Journal of Negro Education, 2009
The academic performance of urban African American students continues to be a major concern. Academic achievement has been the main avenue to upward social mobility for African Americans. This study assesses the effect of attitudes, behavior, peers, and family on the academic performance of African American students living in urban public housing…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Achievement, Public Housing, Predictor Variables
Measuring Students' Perceptions of Personal and Social Responsibility and the Relationship to Intrinsic Motivation in Urban Physical Education
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Li, Weidong; Wright, Paul M.; Rukavina, Paul Bernard; Pickering, Molly – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2008
The purpose of the current study was to test the validity and reliability of a two-factor model of the Personal and Social Responsibility Questionnaire (PSRQ) and examine the relationships between perceptions of personal and social responsibility and intrinsic motivation in physical education. Participants were 253 middle school students who…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Social Responsibility