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Direct linkSankofa, Biko Martin; Hurley, Eric A.; Allen, Brenda A.; Boykin, A. Wade – Urban Education, 2023
This work extends examination of African American students' attitudes toward learning and achievement to contrast the oppositional culture (Ogbu and Fordham) and cultural integrity perspectives. We assessed 200 students' responses to classrooms designed to support competitive, individualistic, communal or high-verve thinking, and behavior.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Success
Butler, Bettie Ray; Coffey, Heather; Young, Jemimah Lee – Urban Education, 2021
The effects of professional teacher dispositions on student development have been widely documented. Yet there is limited discussion of the impact of socially just dispositions. The present study critically examines the relationship between justice-oriented mind-sets in preservice teachers and their perceptions of teaching in urban schools. Using…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Education, Preservice Teachers, Correlation
Bourke, Alan; Jayman, Alison Jenkins – Urban Education, 2011
This article utilizes interview data to explore how notions of risk operate in a school-university partnership program. Our analysis traces the divergence between conceptualizations of "at-risk" in scholarship, its use in policy, and students' responses to this terminology. Although students targeted in such programs are often…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
Oplatka, Izhar – Urban Education, 2007
The current study aimed at exploring the perceived significance of promotional events in secondary schools among Canadian parents, their children, and teachers and at determining the influence of these events on the school-choice process and school life. The findings suggest that both teachers and families displayed apparently contradictory…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Choice, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
Reid, M. Jeanne; Moore, James L., III – Urban Education, 2008
As a part of a larger qualitative study, this research investigation explored the perceptions and attitudes that first-generation, urban college students have of their preparation for postsecondary education. The purposeful sample in this study was comprised of 13 first-generation college students (i.e., 6 males and 7 females) who were graduates…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, First Generation College Students, Postsecondary Education, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedJames, Carl E.; Haig-Brown, Celia – Urban Education, 2001
Explored students' perspectives of a university path program situated within a university-school partnership for immigrant and minority students. Responses show that the abstraction of the program lived in concrete, personal dimensions for students moving from high school to college in the same neighborhood. Distinctions were blurred between the…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College School Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
