Infinite Jurisdiction: Managing Student Achievement In and Out of School

Authors

  • Katherine Crawford-Garrett Ithaca College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v4i12.183932

Keywords:

Teaching, Student Achievement, Urban Education, Teach for America, Culturally Relevant Teaching, Deficit Ideologies

Abstract

This article applies the framework of international development to the experiences of Teach for America corps members teaching in urban schools in an attempt to theorize how corps members respond to the extraordinary pressure placed on them to improve student achievement. Further, by closely examining the narratives corps members employ to describe students, families and communities, this chapter raises questions about how far the jurisdiction of the school should extend and suggests that efforts to regulate students’ home lives are analogous to colonialism’s aims to manage, contain and control the futures of its subjects.

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Published

2013-11-15

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