Controversies in the Classroom
A Radical Teacher Reader
William Ayers editor Robert C Rosen editor Leonard Vogt editor Joseph Entin editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Teachers' College Press
Published:21st Sep '08
Should be back in stock very soon
This book features the most important and exciting writing from the past 15 years of Radical Teacher magazine. Focusing on the personal experience of teachers and the practical realities of teaching, the essays cover Teaching About War; Teaching About Globalization; Teaching About Race, Ethnicity, and Language; Teaching About Gender and Sexualities; and Threats to Public Education: Testing, Tracking, and Privatization . This is a must read for all teachers who are committed to creative pedagogy and social justice.
Contributors: Bernadette Anand, Nancy Barnes, Lilia I. Bartolomé, Bill Bigelow, Lawrence Blum, Marjorie Feld, Michelle Fine, H. Bruce Franklin, Stan Karp, Kevin K. Kumashiro, Pepi Leistyna, Arthur MacEwan, Sarah Napier, Bob Peterson, Nicole Polier, Patti Capel Swartz, Maria Sweeney, Rita Verma, and Kathleen Weiler.
Can activist educators do great work even in dark conservative times? Yes! Read this book and see how. Inside are reports from progressive teachers whose classroom practice defied the suffocating conservatism of recent decades. For the many teachers who bring dreams of a better world to their classrooms, these richly helpful pages teach us how to do our work better. - Ira Shor, author of Empowering Education ""This powerful collection of essays on teaching about war, globalization, race, sexuality, and threats to public education is a wake-up call to educators at all levels: We can make a difference!"" - Jean Anyon, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, author of Radical Possibilities
ISBN: 9780807749111
Dimensions: 229mm x 156mm x 10mm
Weight: 295g
208 pages