“College Material” Structural Care at a New York City Transfer School

C. Ray Borck
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C. Ray Borck: Department of Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY 10007, USA

Societies, 2018, vol. 8, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Based on ethnographic research at Brooklyn Community High School (BCHS), a transfer high school in New York City I demonstrate that students narrate their educational histories in terms of their experience of care, or lack of care, from teachers. Contributing to research on student-teacher relationships, care, resilience and retention, I develop the concept structural care, arguing that teachers’ ability to demonstrate care for their students, and students’ ability to perceive that care, is enabled or constrained by larger, socio-structural forces such as the national educational policy landscape, widespread cultural beliefs about schools and students, and processes of racialization, criminalization, and marginalization.

Keywords: education; care; ethnography; pedagogy; student teacher relationships; high school; resilience; retention; students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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