ED426767 PS027089
Title: Critical Perspectives on Project Head Start: Revisioning the
Hope and Challenge. SUNY Series, Youth Social Services, Schooling,
and Public Policy.
Author(s): Ellsworth, Jeanne, Ed.; Ames, Lynda J., Ed.
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0-7914-3928-3
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Availability: State University of New York Press (SUNY), CUP Services,
Box 6525, Ithaca, NY 14851; Tel: 800-666-2211 (Toll Free); Web site:
http://www.sunypress.edu (paperback: ISBN-0-7914-3928-3, $21.95; hardcover:
ISBN-0-7914-3927-5, $65.50).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIEJUN1999
This book
offers critical perspective on the complex dynamics of politics,
class, gender, power, race, and ethnicity in Project Head Start.
Moving beyond the literature on Head Start's effects on children's
achievement, the volume considers how the program has operated with
families, in communities, and with other institutions. Chapters
address historical background, parent involvement and governance,
cultural diversity, and relationships with other institutions. Following
an introduction, the book's chapters are: (1) "A Lost Legacy:
Head Start's Origins in Community Action" (Kathryn R. Kuntz);
(2) "The Origins of Head Start and the Two Versions of Parent
Involvement: How Much Parent Participation in Early Childhood Programs
and Services for Poor Children?" (Polly Greenberg); (3) "Beyond
Busywork: Crafting a Powerful Role for Low-Income Mothers in Schools
or Sustaining Inequalities?" (Linda Spatig, Laurel Parrott,
Amy Dillon, and Kate Conrad); (4) "Parent Involvement in a
Rural Head Start and the Reproduction of Class" (Roslyn Arlin
Mickelson and Mary Trotter Klenz); (5) "Head Start Bilingual
and Multicultural Program Services" (Patricia A. Hamilton,
Katherine Hays and Henry M. Doan); (6) "High/Scope in Head
Start Programs Serving Southeast Asian Immigrant and Refugee Children
and Their Families: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study" (Eden
Inoway-Ronnie); (7) "Family Literacy Informing Head Start:
Lessons from Hmong and Latino Families" (Elizabeth P. Quintero);
(8) "Reform and Empowerment: Rural Mothers and Head Start"
(Lynda J. Ames and Jeanne Ellsworth); (9) "More than a Job:
Reflections of a Former Head Start Staff Member" (Susan W.
Geddes); (10) "Personal Growth in Head Start" (Wendy L.
Kirby); (11) "Developmentalism Meets Standardized Testing:
Do Low-Income Children Lose?" (Linda Spatig; Robert Bickel,
Laurel Parrot, Amy Dillon, and Kate Conrad); (12) "A Bumpy
Transition from Head Start of Public School: Issues of Philosophical
and Managerial Continuity within the Administrative Structure of
One School System" (Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett and Panayota
Y. Mantzicopoulos); (13) "Inspiring Delusions: Reflections
on Head Start's Enduring Popularity" (Jeanne Ellsworth); and
(14) "Concluding Thoughts: Hope and Challenge: Head Start Past,
Present, Future" (Jeanne Ellsworth and Lynda J. Ames). (EV)
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional); Early Intervention; Educational
History; Minority Groups; Parent Participation; *Politics of Education;
Preschool Education; Social Class
Identifiers: Program Characteristics; *Project Head Start
