Cultural Conflict and Resistance: The Importance of Space in Urban Schools

摘要

Corridor Cultures is a fascinating analysis of an often-neglected aspect of school life: the relationship between architectural space and student and school cultures. Based on an intensive multiyear ethnography in a small school within one of New York City's reorganized comprehensive high schools, the author examines the ongoing tensions between the student-dominated halls and the teacher-dominated classrooms, as well as how the corridors often become a synthesis of street and school cultures.