This article applies Bourdieusian and Butlerian conceptual lenses to qualitative and quantitative data collected as part of a wider longitudinal study of students’ science and career aspirations age 10-16.
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ClearI Think it's Just Natural': The Spatiality of Racial Segregation at a US High School
How does race and it’s ambivalences occur through girls’ everyday and banal spatial practices at school?
Only Here for the Day: The Social Integration of Minority Students at a Majority White High School
Seeks to understand how integration within the same school may be experienced differently by males and females, as this may potentially lead to gender variation in how students approach future integrated situations
Activating Diversity: The Impact of Student Race on Contributions to Course Discussions
1) Are black students more likely than their white peers to bring up different issues or topics in these classes? If so, are there significant race differences in the degree to which students reference different sociological institutions, cultural symbols, and demographics categories?
2) Do students with different race backgrounds utilize different strategies or resources in these course discussions?
Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism
1) What was the trajectory of integration in Baltimore schools? 2) What structures and ideologies fueled rampant school resegregation?
Race and Cultural Flexibility Among Students in Different Multiracial Schools
Examine the difference in cultural flexibility between black and white students enrolled in schools with different racial and ethnic compositions.
Creating Mathematical Futures Through an Equitable Teaching Approach: The Case of Railside School
Gain a better understanding of equitable and successful teaching by analyzing Railside’s success.
Intellectual Role Taking: Supporting Discussion in Heterogeneous Elementary Science Classes
How to work with teachers to develop approaches to engage all students in asking each other questions and deeply engaging relevant conceptual ideas?
K-12 Race-Conscious Student Assignment Policies: Law, Social Science and Diversity
Examines the legality of K-12 race-conscious student assignment policies
Precarious Space: Majority Black Suburbs and Their Public Schools
Understand student achievement in public schools in majority black suburbs
Learning Through Experience: What Graduates Gained by Attending Desegregated High Schools
Examines students’ experiences from attending a desegregated high school.
How Desegregation Changed Us: The Effects of Racially Mixed Schools on Students and Society
Ideas of graduates, educators, advocates and local policy makers who were directly involved in racially mixed public high schools 25 years ago.
The Goals of a Voluntary Integration Program and the Problems of Access: A Closer Look at a Magnet School Application Brochure
Analysis of the district’s magnet school choice brochure and application and show that these key texts provide insights about Brown.
Immigrants and Education in the US Interior: Integrating and Segmenting Tendencies in Nashville, Tennessee
Examine the expression and pattering of integrating and segmenting tendencies in a local community of the U.S. interior.
Reflections of an Expert Witness
Reflections of Armor’s experience as an expert witness in over 30 school desegregation cases
Tracking by Accident and by Design
Tracking in Japan, Germany and the US.
All Children Can Learn- The Unmet Promise: A Study of Ability Grouping and Tracking in North Carolina Schools
Analyzes instructional grouping practices in NC.
Alternative Uses of Ability Grouping in Secondary Schools: Can We Bring High-Quality Instruction to Low-Ability Classes?
Explores possible instances of high-quality instruction in low-ability classes.