Publisher's Synopsis
Teaching in the Hood has been written for educators working in urban educational settings and is meant, in part, to shake up the status quo and provoke some discussion about the failing business-as-usual posture educational reformers have taken in their efforts to improve urban schools. Dr. Gonzales argues that the failure of urban youth has little to do with deficit-based ideologies about the poor, and shifts the blame to a structure or system that is riddled with classist ideologies that for years have gone ignored and which have impeded fair access to the most vulnerable of learners: the poor. Teaching in the Hood emphasizes Transformative Learning which offers educators asset-based perspectives that challenge existing deficit-based structures and attitudes which may be producing the barriers that prevent students of poverty from accessing quality and equitable education; and perhaps unknowingly have created a form of cultural apartheid.
