This qualitative inquiry is a close reading of the representations of public schools and schooling in HBO's television drama The Wire. I pay particular attention to the experiences of school administrators, educators, and students. The Wire draws from the ethnographic work of David Simon, a former Baltimore Sun journalist, and Edward Burns, a retired homicide detective and public school teacher. In examining the show's critiques of public schooling, I ask these questions: What types of representations of public schools and schooling are revealed in season four of The Wire? What kind of knowledge do these representations produce, and how is this knowledge socially and culturally relevant to teachers and to teacher education programs? I conce...
This paper explores the ways in which individual activity is affected by the larger structural envir...
The reform agenda of the 1990s has focused much attention on our nation\u27s schools and raised seri...
The following text presents a revised and extended version of the public defence of my Ph.D. thesis,...
Unlike most courses dedicated to The Wire that have examined race, class, criminal justice, urban st...
I have a confession: I have only watched Season 1 of The Wire, and it has been many years since I di...
This Article focuses on two texts—first, Illich’s 1971 Deschooling Society, which calls for abolis...
This dissertation draws on data from a six-month study of the materiality of one Kindergarten classr...
This Article focuses on two texts—first, Illich’s 1971 Deschooling Society, which calls for abolishi...
HBO's The Wire examines the relationship between institutions and individuals in American society an...
Much has been said about the accountable school, the performative school, the school wholly given o...
In the production and reproduction of culture, school education is one of our society's primary inst...
The Wire’s figuration of the complexity of the relations between the different social structures, in...
In my Steinmetz oral presentation, I will be presenting my research and findings from my thesis. My ...
© 2015 Dr. Robert Malcolm RoeRom Harré concerned with human agency and Michel Foucault with power re...
Since its foundation, the school has been severely criticized. In recent decades the school has yet ...
This paper explores the ways in which individual activity is affected by the larger structural envir...
The reform agenda of the 1990s has focused much attention on our nation\u27s schools and raised seri...
The following text presents a revised and extended version of the public defence of my Ph.D. thesis,...
Unlike most courses dedicated to The Wire that have examined race, class, criminal justice, urban st...
I have a confession: I have only watched Season 1 of The Wire, and it has been many years since I di...
This Article focuses on two texts—first, Illich’s 1971 Deschooling Society, which calls for abolis...
This dissertation draws on data from a six-month study of the materiality of one Kindergarten classr...
This Article focuses on two texts—first, Illich’s 1971 Deschooling Society, which calls for abolishi...
HBO's The Wire examines the relationship between institutions and individuals in American society an...
Much has been said about the accountable school, the performative school, the school wholly given o...
In the production and reproduction of culture, school education is one of our society's primary inst...
The Wire’s figuration of the complexity of the relations between the different social structures, in...
In my Steinmetz oral presentation, I will be presenting my research and findings from my thesis. My ...
© 2015 Dr. Robert Malcolm RoeRom Harré concerned with human agency and Michel Foucault with power re...
Since its foundation, the school has been severely criticized. In recent decades the school has yet ...
This paper explores the ways in which individual activity is affected by the larger structural envir...
The reform agenda of the 1990s has focused much attention on our nation\u27s schools and raised seri...
The following text presents a revised and extended version of the public defence of my Ph.D. thesis,...