Urban abstraction in a central city high school |
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| Authors: | Pamela J Bettis |
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| Institution: | (1) Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology, Auburn University, 4036 Haley Center, 36849-5221 Auburn, AL |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore urban secondary students' preceptions of their school and community
in teh changing economic and social context of postindustrial life. Students and teachers worked and played in a landscape
which I have characterized as one ofurban abstraction, a term synthesized mainly from the work of Manuel Castells. The construct helps explain the complex, contradictory, and
dynamic conditions of late-20th-century capitalistic life and their impact on the emotional and material realities of urban
residents. It also helps to explain the reactions and negotiations in which students and teachers engaged in the face of a
constant threat of violence and a lack of community within the school and its surrounding neighborhoods.
Ramela Bettis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology at Auburn
University, where she teaches courses in qualitative research methods and educational foundations. |
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