Valerie Polakow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1477037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Polakow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Polakow |
| SIGNATURE | POLAKOW V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Question of Rights: Poverty and the Child Care Crisis∗
Children's rights to early care and education raise a fundamental issue to be grappled with in the free market fundamentalism that shapes a 21st century American childhood. The discourse about child care for children in poverty is largely instrumentalist, and focused on a cost-benefit analysis of outcomes, not on children's existential well-being. Children's rights and mothers' rights to high quality child care are not part of the discourse. In t…
Diminished Rights: Danish Lone Mother Families in an International Context
The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence and Juvenile Injustice
The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence and Juvenile Injustice, edited by Valerie Polakow. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000. 212 pp. $14.95, paper. Reviewed by Beverly D. Epps, Virginia Commonwealth University. The Public Assault on America's Children, edited by Valerie Polakow, is a comprehensive look at systemic violence against children in the United States. The authors consider the implementation of any policy, pract…
Special Issue: Poverty and Schooling
(2001). Special Issue: Poverty and Schooling. Educational Studies: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 259-263
Poor relations: The children of the state in Illinois, 1818–1990
School-Smart and Mother-Wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling
School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we hear working-class women--black and white, rural and urban, southern and northern--recount their childhood experiences, describing the circumstances that led them to drop out of school. Now enrolled in adult education programs, they seek more than a diploma: respect, recognition, and a public identi…
Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
The Politics of Education: Culture Power and Liberation
point of view, or unsympathetically, by assuming the peasant is a mere tool of production or a diseased one in need of the social worker's medicine.In his refusal to address his readers as different and yet sincerely committed peers, and thus to actually engage them in conversation, Freire affirms that very stratified discourse from which he seeks to lead us away.His own principles, commit ment, a respect for education, however, do appear even if…
On Meaningmaking and Stories: Young Children’s Experiences with Texts
Reflections on Pedagogy, Research and Praxis
The breakdown of human literacy, of which various symptoms are evi dent, the disquiet about whether poetry is any longer important or the conviction that it is not, must not be shrugged off. Rather should it sharpen our sense of the significant, of the works we choose to includethat means to interpret and communicate-in our new complications. It can be read as urgent warning against getting permanently lost in the Pedagogical Provinces, while the…
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Reflections on Pedagogy, Research and Praxis
The breakdown of human literacy, of which various symptoms are evi dent, the disquiet about whether poetry is any longer important or the conviction that it is not, must not be shrugged off. Rather should it sharpen our sense of the significant, of the works we choose to includethat means to interpret and communicate-in our new complications. It can be read as urgent warning against getting permanently lost in the Pedagogical Provinces, while the…
On Meaningmaking and Stories: Young Children’s Experiences with Texts
The Politics of Education: Culture Power and Liberation
point of view, or unsympathetically, by assuming the peasant is a mere tool of production or a diseased one in need of the social worker's medicine.In his refusal to address his readers as different and yet sincerely committed peers, and thus to actually engage them in conversation, Freire affirms that very stratified discourse from which he seeks to lead us away.His own principles, commit ment, a respect for education, however, do appear even if…
Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
School-Smart and Mother-Wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling
School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we hear working-class women--black and white, rural and urban, southern and northern--recount their childhood experiences, describing the circumstances that led them to drop out of school. Now enrolled in adult education programs, they seek more than a diploma: respect, recognition, and a public identi…
Poor relations: The children of the state in Illinois, 1818–1990
Special Issue: Poverty and Schooling
(2001). Special Issue: Poverty and Schooling. Educational Studies: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 259-263
Diminished Rights: Danish Lone Mother Families in an International Context
The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence and Juvenile Injustice
The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence and Juvenile Injustice, edited by Valerie Polakow. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000. 212 pp. $14.95, paper. Reviewed by Beverly D. Epps, Virginia Commonwealth University. The Public Assault on America's Children, edited by Valerie Polakow, is a comprehensive look at systemic violence against children in the United States. The authors consider the implementation of any policy, pract…
A Question of Rights: Poverty and the Child Care Crisis∗
Children's rights to early care and education raise a fundamental issue to be grappled with in the free market fundamentalism that shapes a 21st century American childhood. The discourse about child care for children in poverty is largely instrumentalist, and focused on a cost-benefit analysis of outcomes, not on children's existential well-being. Children's rights and mothers' rights to high quality child care are not part of the discourse. In t…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)