Toward the "School as Sanctuary" Concept in Multicultural Urban Education: Implications for Small High School Reform

Autor/in	Antrop-Gonzalez, Rene
Titel	Toward the "School as Sanctuary" Concept in Multicultural Urban Education: Implications for Small High School Reform
Quelle	In: Curriculum Inquiry, 36 (2006) 3, S.273-301 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0362-6784
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-873X.2006.00359.x
Schlagwörter	Multicultural Education; Urban Education; Small Schools; High Schools; School Restructuring; High School Students; Urban Schools; Teacher Student Relationship; Educational Environment; School Safety + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Multikulturelle Erziehung; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; School; Schools; Schule; High school; Oberschule; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; High schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Urban area; Urban areas; Stadtregion; Stadt; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt
Abstract	This article describes the "school as sanctuary" concept through the voices of students enrolled in a small urban high school that curricularly privileges the linguistic, cultural, and sociopolitical realities of its communities. Moreover, this particular school was founded by students and teachers over 30 years ago as a direct response to pedagogically and psychologically colonizing large comprehensive high schools in a major urban school district. According to students, a school becomes a sanctuary when there are four essential components in place. These sanctuary-like attributes include multiple definitions of caring relations between students and their teachers, the importance of a familial-like school environment, the necessity of psychologically and physically safe school spaces, and allowing students a forum in which they are encouraged to affirm their racial/ethnic pride. Implications for forwarding this concept within a larger discourse around urban school reform are discussed. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10