Jacqueline Jenkins

Areas of Interest:

History of Public Education; Anthropology of Education; Politics of Urban Education Policy & Practice; School Reform & Alternative Approaches to Schooling; Theories of Social Inequality; Educational Ethnography & Qualitative Research Methods

 Dissertation:

I use social theory and ethnography to examine the economic processes, social formations, and political conditions that perpetuate inequality in and around public schooling in the U.S.  My dissertation project situates the racial and cultural politics of the San Francisco Bay Area’s small schools movement within the broader context of national urban school reform policy and practice today.  I study progressive school reformers’ attempts to create equity in public schools through various processes and practices at the school site level, in partnership with educational reform non-profits and community-based organizations, as well as through national networks, policy groups, conferences, and online communities.