Susan Roberta Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Roberta Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Katz |
| SIGNATURE | KATZ S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Something Within Me Kept Pushing Me to Find a Way to Pursue My Dreams of Becoming a Teacher” Oral History with Maria Rosa Tombé Tunubalá
Do gitano students feel discriminated against in their social and academic surroundings? A survey of schools in Granada, Spain
This paper aims to study the perception of 208 students [37 gitanos (gypsies), 138 payos (non-gypsies), 22 mixed ethnicity (gitano-payo), and 8 other ethnicities] in areas and schools with gitano populations in the City and Province of Granada, Spain, considering nine factors related to the segregation, discrimination and racism towards the gitano community. A questionnaire with a Likert scale of 1–5 points was utilised to understand the percepti…
Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms
Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms presents ten research-based human rights projects powerfully implemented in a range of U.S. classrooms, from elementary school through community college and university. In these classrooms, the students—primarily young people of color who have experienced or witnessed human rights abuses such as discrimination and poverty—are exposed for the first time to thinking about their own lives and the worl…
Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms
This book offers research-based models of exemplary practice for educators at all grade levels, from primary school to university, who want to integrate human rights education into their classrooms. I
Recuperando la dignidad humana [Recovering human dignity]’
This paper presents findings from interviews conducted in December 2011, with seven Shuar mothers of children in an intercultural bilingual school in the southern Amazon region of Ecuador. This study had two objectives: (1) to foreground the perspectives of Shuar parents towards intercultural bilingual education (IBE) as implemented in the Shuar pedagogical institute, and (2) to collaborate as an intercultural research team (North American-Shuar)…
Overtested
Overtested: how high-stakes accountability fails English language learners, by Jessica Zacher Pandya, New York, Teachers College Press, 2011, xvi + 143 pp., $62.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8077-5248
Peace Profile
Emerging from the cocoon of Romani pride
Despite recent educational reforms in Hungary, only 33% of Roma who enter primary school subsequently enroll in secondary school, and a mere 0.2% progress to higher education. To address this situation, in 1994 the Gandhi Secondary School opened its doors as the first college preparatory school for Roma in Europe. In 2000, the school graduated 18 of its original 56 students. Based on interviews conducted in 2004 with 10 of these students, two of …
Teaching in Tensions
This article examines the tensions inherent in the relationship between Latino immigrant youth and their teachers at a desegregated urban middle school in Northern California, exploring these tensions from both the students’ and teachers’ perspectives. It is based upon data from a year-long ethnographic study of the school experiences of eight immigrant students from Central America and Mexico, all of whom had older siblings or close friends invo…
Investing in Teaching and Learning
This article integrates findings from three independent studies (one national quantitative and two urban qualitative) to analyze two aspects of the teacher-student relationship: (a) how teachers and students each view their mutual relationship and (b) how this relationship affects students’subsequent academic performance. All three studies corroborate the significant finding that teachers base their educational expectations heavily on students’ t…
Where the Streets Cross the Classroom
This study is an ethnography of eight middle school students, all immigrants from Central America and Mexico with siblings or close friends active in gangs. The investigation attempts to solve the puzzle of why these teenagers from marginalized ethnic communities were increasingly involved in neighborhood gangs and how schooling potentially contributed to that involvement. Though the students were seeking a positive cultural identity as Latinos, …
Investing in Teaching and Learning
This article integrates findings from three independent studies (one national quantitative and two urban qualitative) to analyze two aspects of the teacher-student relationship: (a) how teachers and students each view their mutual relationship and (b) how this relationship affects students’subsequent academic performance. All three studies corroborate the significant finding that teachers base their educational expectations heavily on students’ t…
Recuperando la dignidad humana [Recovering human dignity]’
This paper presents findings from interviews conducted in December 2011, with seven Shuar mothers of children in an intercultural bilingual school in the southern Amazon region of Ecuador. This study had two objectives: (1) to foreground the perspectives of Shuar parents towards intercultural bilingual education (IBE) as implemented in the Shuar pedagogical institute, and (2) to collaborate as an intercultural research team (North American-Shuar)…
Where the Streets Cross the Classroom
This study is an ethnography of eight middle school students, all immigrants from Central America and Mexico with siblings or close friends active in gangs. The investigation attempts to solve the puzzle of why these teenagers from marginalized ethnic communities were increasingly involved in neighborhood gangs and how schooling potentially contributed to that involvement. Though the students were seeking a positive cultural identity as Latinos, …
Emerging from the cocoon of Romani pride
Despite recent educational reforms in Hungary, only 33% of Roma who enter primary school subsequently enroll in secondary school, and a mere 0.2% progress to higher education. To address this situation, in 1994 the Gandhi Secondary School opened its doors as the first college preparatory school for Roma in Europe. In 2000, the school graduated 18 of its original 56 students. Based on interviews conducted in 2004 with 10 of these students, two of …
Where the Streets Cross the Classroom
This study is an ethnography of eight middle school students, all immigrants from Central America and Mexico with siblings or close friends active in gangs. The investigation attempts to solve the puzzle of why these teenagers from marginalized ethnic communities were increasingly involved in neighborhood gangs and how schooling potentially contributed to that involvement. Though the students were seeking a positive cultural identity as Latinos, …
Teaching in Tensions
This article examines the tensions inherent in the relationship between Latino immigrant youth and their teachers at a desegregated urban middle school in Northern California, exploring these tensions from both the students’ and teachers’ perspectives. It is based upon data from a year-long ethnographic study of the school experiences of eight immigrant students from Central America and Mexico, all of whom had older siblings or close friends invo…
Investing in Teaching and Learning
This article integrates findings from three independent studies (one national quantitative and two urban qualitative) to analyze two aspects of the teacher-student relationship: (a) how teachers and students each view their mutual relationship and (b) how this relationship affects students’subsequent academic performance. All three studies corroborate the significant finding that teachers base their educational expectations heavily on students’ t…
Emerging from the cocoon of Romani pride
Despite recent educational reforms in Hungary, only 33% of Roma who enter primary school subsequently enroll in secondary school, and a mere 0.2% progress to higher education. To address this situation, in 1994 the Gandhi Secondary School opened its doors as the first college preparatory school for Roma in Europe. In 2000, the school graduated 18 of its original 56 students. Based on interviews conducted in 2004 with 10 of these students, two of …
Peace Profile
Overtested
Overtested: how high-stakes accountability fails English language learners, by Jessica Zacher Pandya, New York, Teachers College Press, 2011, xvi + 143 pp., $62.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8077-5248
Recuperando la dignidad humana [Recovering human dignity]’
This paper presents findings from interviews conducted in December 2011, with seven Shuar mothers of children in an intercultural bilingual school in the southern Amazon region of Ecuador. This study had two objectives: (1) to foreground the perspectives of Shuar parents towards intercultural bilingual education (IBE) as implemented in the Shuar pedagogical institute, and (2) to collaborate as an intercultural research team (North American-Shuar)…
Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms
Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms presents ten research-based human rights projects powerfully implemented in a range of U.S. classrooms, from elementary school through community college and university. In these classrooms, the students—primarily young people of color who have experienced or witnessed human rights abuses such as discrimination and poverty—are exposed for the first time to thinking about their own lives and the worl…
Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms
This book offers research-based models of exemplary practice for educators at all grade levels, from primary school to university, who want to integrate human rights education into their classrooms. I
Do gitano students feel discriminated against in their social and academic surroundings? A survey of schools in Granada, Spain
This paper aims to study the perception of 208 students [37 gitanos (gypsies), 138 payos (non-gypsies), 22 mixed ethnicity (gitano-payo), and 8 other ethnicities] in areas and schools with gitano populations in the City and Province of Granada, Spain, considering nine factors related to the segregation, discrimination and racism towards the gitano community. A questionnaire with a Likert scale of 1–5 points was utilised to understand the percepti…
Something Within Me Kept Pushing Me to Find a Way to Pursue My Dreams of Becoming a Teacher” Oral History with Maria Rosa Tombé Tunubalá
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)