| Description |
1 online resource (x, 150 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Education policy and multicultural cities -- Policy events -- Policy and biopolitics : the event of race-based statistics in Toronto -- The (micro) politics of racial neoliberalism / with Viviana Pitton -- "Up in the northwest corner of the city" : the dity race and locating the school -- Difference an recopnition -- Policy events, race and the future of the city |
| Summary |
The empirical focus of this book is on the twenty year struggle by parents and members of the Black community in Toronto to introduce an Africentric Alternative School (AAS) with Black-focused curricula. It brings together a seemingly disparate series of events that emerged from equity and multicultural narratives about the establishment of the school - violence, anti-racism and race-based statistics, policy entrepreneurs, and the re-birth of alternative schools in Toronto - to illustrate how these events ostensibly functioned through neoliberal choice mechanisms and practices. Gulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics of education in multicultural cities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Black people -- Education -- Ontario -- Toronto
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Alternative schools -- Ontario -- Toronto
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Multicultural education.
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EDUCATION -- Essays.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Reference.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
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Alternative schools
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Black people -- Education
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Multicultural education
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Ontario -- Toronto
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1447320085 |
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9781447320081 |
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9781447335214 |
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9781447335221 |
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1447335228 |
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144733521X |
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