Critical Perspectives on Project Head Start: Revisioning the Hope and Challenge (Suny Series, Youth Social Services, Schooling, and Public Policy) - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791439283 ISBN 13 : 9780791439289

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book offers critical perspectives on the complex dynamics of politics, class, gender, power, race, and ethnicity in Project Head Start, past and present. Moving beyond the literature on Head Start's effects on children's achievement, this volume considers how the program has operated-sometimes effectively and comfortably, sometimes not-with families, in communities, and with other institutions. Contributors address historical background, parent involvement and governance, cultural diversity, and relationships with other institutions. The research reported is rich with the voices of parents, community members, and staff, and is complemented by first-person chapters written by participants themselves. Head Start's appeal and its reputation for success are both championed and critically questioned in this book, with an eye toward where Head Start might be going, where it should be going, and how we can better understand poverty, social programs, and education.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jeanne Ellsworth is Associate Professor, Center for Educational Studies and Services and Lynda J. Ames is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, both at Plattsburgh State University of New York. Their previous book is Women Reformed, Women Empowered: Rural Mothers and the Endangered Promise of Head Start.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791439283
• ISBN 13: 9780791439289
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Éditeur: Ellsworth Jeanne
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible