All Children Are All Our Children

ISBN-13: 9781433161643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 202 str.

Doug Selwyn

Opis

What would schools and communities look like if the health and well-being of all our children were our highest priorities? More important than test scores, profits, or real estate values? What actions would we take if we wanted to guarantee that all our children were growing up with what they needed to be healthy, happy, and successful-and not just some of them? The United States was once among the healthiest countries in the world. As of now, it is ranked no better than twenty-ninth. Those who bear the brunt of our worsening health are the poor, people of color, and, most of all, our children. All Children Are All Our Children situates our ongoing health crisis within the larger picture of inequality and the complex interplay of systems in the U.S. based on class, privilege, racism, sexism, and the ongoing tension between the ideals of democracy and the realities of corporate capitalism. Public education is caught in the middle of those tensions. All Children Are All Our Children begins by defining what we mean by health, looking at the many factors that support or undermine it, and then identifies steps that can be taken locally in our schools and in our communities that can support the health and well-being of our young people and their families, even as we work towards necessary change at the state and national policy level.

Recenzje

"Accessibly written with sharp-as-nails political analysis, in All Children Are All Our Children, long-time teacher and education activist Doug Selwyn indicts the inhumanity of corporate education reform while righteously arguing that healthy schools start with healthy communities and healthy kids. If you are interested in understanding how to really fix our schools, read this book." -Wayne Au, Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell and editor & author at Rethinking Schools

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Defining Health - Inequality - Chronic Stress - Environmental Factors - Corporate Capitalism v. Democracy and the Common Good - The Purpose of Education - High Stakes Standardized Testing - Denying Our Children - What Can Schools Do? - It Takes a Village to Change a Village - Conclusion: What Will We Do? - Index.

O autorze

Doug Selwyn has been an educator for more than thirty years, the first half as a teacher in K-12 in the Seattle Public Schools and the second half in teacher education, first at Antioch University Seattle and then for ten years as a professor of education at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh until his retirement in 2017. He received his doctorate from Seattle University in 1991 and was named Washington State social studies teacher of the year in 1990-91. He has published several books on education, most recently Following the Threads (Peter Lang, 2009). He lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with his wife, writer Jan Maher.