Staff, Parents and Politics in Head Start: A Case Study in Unequal Power, Knowledge and Material Resources

by Peggy A. Sissel

Overview

This book takes the reader inside the workings of Head Start, drawing attention to the inequalities in power, knowledge, and material resources that exist in the United States. It traces the dialectical relationship between the thoughts and actions of staff members and parents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815331032
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Series:	Studies in Education/Politics , #4
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peggy A. Sissel is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Applied Studies in Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The recipient of numerous honors for her scholarship, she is presently a fellow with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Cyril O Houle Scholars in Adult and Continuing Education Program.

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Introduction — Acknowledgments — Introduction: The Public and Private Worlds of Head Start — Chapter 1 In the War Zone: Head Start’s Facilities and Funding — Chapter 2 Head Start’s Philosophy and Framework: — An Overview of Ideology, Politics, and Promises — Chapter 3 A House Divided: The Micropolitics of Head Start Staff — Chapter 4 Some Parents Are Better Than Others: The Politics of Class, Race, and Gender in Head Start — Chapter 5 Mixed Messages: Information as Political Resource in Parent Programming — Chapter 6 Defining “Appropriate Behavior”: Power — and Control Issues in Parent and Staff Relations — Chapter 7 Coming Together and Coming Apart: — Accommodation, Resistance, and the Reproduction of Power — Chapter 8 Metaphors of Separation and Community: Implications of Micropolitics in Programs — Bibliography — Author Index — Subject Index.