“College Material” Structural Care at a New York City Transfer School
Based on ethnographic research at Brooklyn Community High School (BCHS), a transfer high school in New York City I demonstrate that students narrate their educational histories in terms of their experience of care, or lack of care, from teachers. Contributing to research on student-teacher relations...
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doaj-97eadd0bc444486b85ef1714b2efc8ab2020-11-24T21:47:17ZengMDPI AGSocieties2075-46982018-11-018411310.3390/soc8040113soc8040113“College Material” Structural Care at a New York City Transfer SchoolC. Ray Borck0Department of Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY 10007, USABased on ethnographic research at Brooklyn Community High School (BCHS), a transfer high school in New York City I demonstrate that students narrate their educational histories in terms of their experience of care, or lack of care, from teachers. Contributing to research on student-teacher relationships, care, resilience and retention, I develop the concept structural care, arguing that teachers’ ability to demonstrate care for their students, and students’ ability to perceive that care, is enabled or constrained by larger, socio-structural forces such as the national educational policy landscape, widespread cultural beliefs about schools and students, and processes of racialization, criminalization, and marginalization.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/8/4/113educationcareethnographypedagogystudent teacher relationshipshigh schoolresilienceretentionstudents |
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Based on ethnographic research at Brooklyn Community High School (BCHS), a transfer high school in New York City I demonstrate that students narrate their educational histories in terms of their experience of care, or lack of care, from teachers. Contributing to research on student-teacher relationships, care, resilience and retention, I develop the concept structural care, arguing that teachers’ ability to demonstrate care for their students, and students’ ability to perceive that care, is enabled or constrained by larger, socio-structural forces such as the national educational policy landscape, widespread cultural beliefs about schools and students, and processes of racialization, criminalization, and marginalization. |
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