Year‐Round Schools and the Politics of Time
- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Anthropology & Education Quarterly
- Vol. 29 (4) , 446-472
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aeq.1998.29.4.446
Abstract
This ethnographic study explores the politics of time in a multitrack, “yearround” school in inner‐city Los Angeles. We analyze different types and experiences of time within the school and time collisions across institutions in this densely populated immigrant community. Viewing time as a contested commodity, we examine the politics behind the presumed impartiality of the clock and calendar. The school's year‐round schedule is especially problematic, involving multiple tracks with lengthened days and a shortened school year. We show how issues of educational equity go to the core of debates over alternative school schedules.Keywords
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