Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School

by Maryann Dickar

Book Overview

For many students, the classroom is not the central focus of school. The school's corridors and doorways are areas largely given over to student control, and it is here that they negotiate their cultural identities and status among their peer groups. The flavor of this "corridor culture" tends to reflect the values and culture of the surrounding community.
Based on participant observation in a racially segregated high school in New York City,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814720099
• ISBN13: 9780814720097
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"