Elusive Justice: Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice
Author:   Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415953658


Pages:   254
Publication Date:   26 September 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Elusive Justice: Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice


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Author:   Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780415953658


ISBN 10:   0415953650
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   26 September 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Michelle Fine1.Introduction 2. Justice Claims and Everyday Practice: Portraits of Two Schools3. Integration4. Equal Standards5. Recognition 6. The Difference Is in the Relationship: A Framework for Justice

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"""Abu El-Haj has done an admirable service to those of us interested in educational equity, and attendant questions of leadership and the design of policies that will further social justice goals...[She] successfully captures and analyzes the moments, interactions, and activities through which just or unjust educational experiences are constructed in daily life within the school...This book can make a wonderful contribution to the professional learning of educators and others concerned with the sources of, and response to, educational inequities, especially scholars or practitioners of educational policymaking and leadership.""--Anthropology and Education Quarterly ""As an attempt to reveal the complexities of working for educational justice in a school, and as a portraiture, Elusive Justice is an engaging work. Abu El-Haj's interviews with teachers and students vividly illustrate the dilemmas she has invested so much time and effort exploring.""--Teachers College Record, May 24, 2007"


Abu El-Haj has done an admirable service to those of us interested in educational equity, and attendant questions of leadership and the design of policies that will further social justice goals...[She] successfully captures and analyzes the moments, interactions, and activities through which just or unjust educational experiences are constructed in daily life within the school...This book can make a wonderful contribution to the professional learning of educators and others concerned with the sources of, and response to, educational inequities, especially scholars or practitioners of educational policymaking and leadership. --Anthropology and Education Quarterly As an attempt to reveal the complexities of working for educational justice in a school, and as a portraiture, Elusive Justice is an engaging work. Abu El-Haj's interviews with teachers and students vividly illustrate the dilemmas she has invested so much time and effort exploring. --Teachers College Record, May 24, 2007


Author Information

Thea Abu El-Haj is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.

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