Contentious Curricula : : Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools / / Amy J. Binder.
This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations...
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Binder, Amy J., author. Contentious Curricula : Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools / Amy J. Binder. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2002 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 35 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. Introduction to Afrocentrism and Creationism, Challengers to Educational "Injustice" -- Two. The Challengers -- Three. History of the Three Afrocentric Cases: Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New York State -- Four. Cultural, Political, and Organizational Factors Influencing Afrocentric Outcomes -- Five. History of the Four Creationist Cases: Louisiana State, California State, Vista, California, and Kansas State -- Six. Cultural, Political, and Organizational Factors Influencing Creationist Outcomes -- Seven. Making More Institutional the Study of Challenge -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements. Amy Binder gives a brief history of both movements and then describes how their challenges played out in seven school districts. Despite their very different constituencies--inner-city African American cultural essentialists and predominately white suburban Christian conservatives--Afrocentrists and creationists had much in common. Both made similar arguments about oppression and their children's well-being, both faced skepticism from educators about their factual claims, and both mounted their challenges through bureaucratic channels. In each case, challenged school systems were ultimately able to minimize or reject challengers' demands, but the process varied by case and type of challenge. Binder finds that Afrocentrists were more successful in advancing their cause than were creationists because they appeared to offer a solution to the real problem of urban school failure, met with more administrative sympathy toward their complaints of historic exclusion, sought to alter lower-prestige curricula (history, not science), and faced opponents who lacked a legal remedy comparable to the rule of church-state separation invoked by creationism's opponents. Binder's analysis yields several lessons for social movements research, suggesting that researchers need to pay greater attention to how movements seek to influence bureaucratic decision making, often from within. It also demonstrates the benefits of examining discursive, structural, and institutional factors in concert. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) EDUCATION / Comparative. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691117904 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400825455 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400825455.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. Introduction to Afrocentrism and Creationism, Challengers to Educational "Injustice" -- Two. The Challengers -- Three. History of the Three Afrocentric Cases: Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New York State -- Four. Cultural, Political, and Organizational Factors Influencing Afrocentric Outcomes -- Five. History of the Four Creationist Cases: Louisiana State, California State, Vista, California, and Kansas State -- Six. Cultural, Political, and Organizational Factors Influencing Creationist Outcomes -- Seven. Making More Institutional the Study of Challenge -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. Introduction to Afrocentrism and Creationism, Challengers to Educational "Injustice" -- Two. The Challengers -- Three. History of the Three Afrocentric Cases: Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New York State -- Four. Cultural, Political, and Organizational Factors Influencing Afrocentric Outcomes -- Five. History of the Four Creationist Cases: Louisiana State, California State, Vista, California, and Kansas State -- Six. Cultural, Political, and Organizational Factors Influencing Creationist Outcomes -- Seven. Making More Institutional the Study of Challenge -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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