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Suess, Gretchen Elise Leuszler.

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Beyond school walls: The politics of community and place in two Philadelphia neighborhoods.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beyond school walls: The politics of community and place in two Philadelphia neighborhoods./
Author:	Suess, Gretchen Elise Leuszler.
Description:	313 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3194.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-08A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3326383
ISBN:	9780549775904

Beyond school walls: The politics of community and place in two Philadelphia neighborhoods.
Suess, Gretchen Elise Leuszler.

Beyond school walls: The politics of community and place in two Philadelphia neighborhoods. - 313 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3194.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2008.

Leaders of Philadelphia are concerned about the economic future of the city and the obvious disparities that exist across the city's neighborhoods. As Philadelphia, "the City of Brotherly Love," defines a means of becoming a globally competitive city, many of its institutional leaders have looked to the public schools to help them reach their goals. They are in agreement that many of the schools are preventing the local economic development of the city, by failing to successfully compete with suburban school districts for middle class families, and are cementing low-income children into a future of low-wage work and continued poverty in the urban core. As cities like Philadelphia embark upon fast-paced development to help them compete in the global economic market, leaders are calling upon increased civic engagement among citizens to help them improve the city.

ISBN: 9780549775904Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Beyond school walls: The politics of community and place in two Philadelphia neighborhoods.
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520 $a This comparative ethnographic dissertation project closely examines the events surrounding the rebuilding of two large comprehensive public high schools in two gentrifying, but predominantly low-income and working-class, parts of the city of Philadelphia. All too often, "the poor" are said to not be civically engaged, and are judged for not mobilizing for the improvement of themselves, their neighborhoods, or their local schools. By investigating and explaining civic engagement around two neighborhood high schools, both serving low-income, working-class communities long restricted by a lack of resources, but with solid histories of local social activism, we have an opportunity to learn much about the dynamic processes behind poverty and how the civic engagement of the poor is threatened into silence.
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