Date of Award
8-31-2009
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS)
Department
Liberal Studies
First Advisor
Francois Bonneville
Second Advisor
Martha Wiseman
Abstract
With an informed eye to the psychological, sociological, and institutional aspects of immediate events, the writer explores her seven years teaching in a school for disadvantaged urban youth living in a mid-sized Midwestern U.S. city. This work melds intensely personal memoir with perspectives to be had from current research, thus situating the personal in a wider social context. With this articulation came deep dissatisfaction with premises and practices on which the high school was based, and ultimately the writer decided to leave for an entirely different environment. At the conclusion is an annotated bibliography, offering the reader tools to evaluate the writer's experiences as well as his or her own.
Recommended Citation
Franks, Deborah Evaline, "A Teacher Reflects on Seven Years in a Kansas City Alternative High School" (2009). MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019. 73.
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/mals_stu_schol/73
Included in
Educational Methods Commons, Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration Commons