Civic Literacy in Schools and Communities: Teaching and Organizing for a Revitalized Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780807765241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 137 str.

Brian Charest; Kevin K. Kumashiro

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• Contents (Tentative)
• Foreword Kevin K. Kumashiro ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction xv
• 1. The Role of Teachers and the Purpose of Schools 1
• What’s My Job, Again? 1
• Teaching Matters: Embracing Different Ways of Knowing, Being, Seeing, and Doing 10
• Centering Civic and Community Engagement: The Promise of Democratic Participation in Schools and Communities 12
• Key Strategies and Ideas for Doing School Differently 17
• 2. Building a Relational Culture: The Power of Relational Pedagogy for Teacher Engagement in Schools and Communities 19
• Life in Schools: Educating Teachers 19
• Collective Possibilities: Envisioning Healthy and Sustainable Schools and Communities 22
• Relating Is Relational: How to Rebuild Institutions and Communities by Building Better Relationships 26
• A Short Guide to Working in Communities 37
• 3. Education and Inequality: Why Schools Haven’t Solved Our Social Problems 40
• Marching Toward the Light: Working Across Social Boundaries 40
• Making the Road by Walking: Accountability on Chicago’s South Side 47
• Rebuilding the School: Community Approaches to School Improvement 52
• Institutional Resistance: Different Views of Accountability 54
• Accountability Reconsidered: Students and Teachers Acting Together 57
• Community Power: A Look Back 58
• Accountability to Community: Learning Through Action 62
• Changing Social Conditions: Final Reflections 65
• 4. Models for Change: Community as Curriculum and the Promise of Democratic Schooling 69
• Why We Need Grassroots School Reform 69
• Grassroots Curriculum: The Power of Place 75
• Indigenous Leaders: Community Organizing and Teacher Organizers 78
• Community as Campus: Community Action Councils and the Shaping of a School 83
• Democratic Schooling: The Nova Project 89
• 5. Making Citizen Teachers: Educational Leaders for Justice and Democracy 95
• Rethinking Teacher Education 95
• Citizen Teachers and the Democratic Potential of Schools 98
• Surviving the War: What Will It Take to Change Our
• Schools and Communities? 104
• Making Citizen Teachers and the Challenges to Teaching Differently 108
• Teaching on the Boundary 112
• Possible Futures: Democratic Practices and Community Engagement in Schools 114
• The Limits of Alinsky and the Promise of Grassroots Organizing 120
• References 125
• Index 129
• About the Author 137