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Joint Action on the Wild Side of Manhattan: The Power of the Cultural Center on an Educational Alternative
Author(s) -
Rosemarie Rizzo-Tolk,
Hervé Varenne
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1992.23.3.05x1125g
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , power (physics) , sociology , action (physics) , task (project management) , psychology , mathematics education , social psychology , pedagogy , engineering , chemistry , physics , systems engineering , quantum mechanics , crystallography
Five minutes of group discussion by African‐American and Hispanic students in an alternative high school were videotaped and submitted to a form of discourse analysis that demonstrated the students' sensitivity to the task. Despite this pragmatic success, teachers evaluated this performance as a failure. The source of this evaluation lies in the nature of “success” as an American category.