Dignity-Affirming Education: Cultivating the Somebodiness of Students and Educators

ISBN-13: 9780807766521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Therese Quinn

Spis treści

• Contents

• Preface: Dignity at the Forefront vii
  Acknowledgments xi
• 1. I Am, We Are Somebodies: An Introduction to the Idea of Dignity 1
• Decoteau J. Irby
• Part I: IMAGINING AND ORGANIZING DIGNITY-AFFIRMING SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
• 2. The Radical Affirmation of Dignity: Septima Clark, Ella Baker, and Educating the Disenfranchised 23
• Charity Anderson and Charles M. Payne
• 3. Contradictions and the Dignity of Resistance: Truth and Reckoning at a Social Justice School 42
• Daniel Morales-Doyle and David Stovall
• 4. Breathing Dignity Into a Community College Success Course 59
• Jacqueline Robinson
• Part II: DIGNITY-AFFIRMING EXPERIENCES
• 5. ÒYou're Gonna Get Respected, Listened to, and Your Opinion Will Be RespectedÓ: Dignity Affirmation in the Clemente Course in the Humanities 81
• Charity Anderson
• 6. Power Lifting: Being Somebody, Becoming Significant 96
• Eric K. Grimes/Brother Shomari
• 7. "Teachers Don't Like Me Because You Have to Earn My Respect": Deference and Dignity in the Classroom 111
• Crystal V. Breedlove
• 8. "The Protests Made Me Feel So Proud of Us": Racial Literacies and Bearing Witness to the Movement for Black Lives 128
• Samuel Finesurrey, Arnaldo Rodriguez, Alondra Contreras, Aidan Lam, and Michelle Fine, with the S2 Alumni Research Collective: Joel Almonte, Nathan Boissier, Samantha Bruno, Noah Campbell, Noel Columna, Ashley Cruz, Jesslin Hiraldo, Mya Laporte, Brandon Mendoza, Naomi Pabon, Sheylany Paulino, Ariana Pe–a Ram'rez, Lauren Santos, Siarra Savinon, and Alyssa Victoria
• 9. Subverting Invisibility: Connectivity as Dignity-Affirming Pedagogy 143
• Manali J. Sheth and Ayako Takamori
• Part III: DIGNITY-AFFIRMING SOCIAL AND EDUCATION POLICY
• 10. Threaten to Close?: Alternative Schools of Dignity, Recognition, and Transformation Under Constant Neoliberal Assault 163
• Mica Baum-Tuccillo, Varnica Arora, Evin Orfila, Christyl Rodriguez, and Michelle Fine
• 11. "It's Powerful. There's Nothing Punitive About It; You're Just Listening": Restorative Justice as a Dignity-Affirming Practice 182
• Elisabeth H. Kim and Priscilla Wohlstetter
• 12. Taking Pride in Our Languages, Taking Pride in Ourselves: Dual Language Education as Dignity-Affirming Spaces for Latinx Communities 200
• Ramona Alcal‡ and P. Zitlali Morales
• Conclusion: Centering Dignity 219
• Charity Anderson, Charles M. Payne, and Decoteau J. Irby
• Notes 227
• Index 229
• About the Editors and the Contributors 239