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Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work And The Blame Game, Heidi Katherine Pitzer
Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work And The Blame Game, Heidi Katherine Pitzer
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This dissertation explores how urban public school teachers navigate the contradictory social position of having little power over their work and considerable power over their students. This qualitative interpretive study begins from a perspective that is attentive to and critical of both (a) neoliberal approaches to education, particularly the market-based, audit culture logics and practices that devalue, discipline and target teachers as workers, and (b) the racialized deficit discourse, a predominant framework in urban schools--often taken up by urban teachers--that blames poor urban youth and youth of color for school problems, constructs them as objects in need of control and …