Politics, Education, and Social Problems: Complicated Classroom Conversations

ISBN-13: 9783030760847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 105 str.

Jennifer Rich

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Education as Politics

Chapter 2. “White Privilege is a Myth:” Tackling Race

Chapter 3. “There were Christmas Trees but no Christmas:” Religion in Public Schools

Chapter 4. “I Don’t Speak Poor:” Uncovering Social Class 

Chapter 5. “We Exist:” Gender in the Classroom

Chapter 6. Classroom Conversations about Sexual Assault

Chapter 7. Classroom Conversations about Gun Violence

Chapter 8. How Do We Get There?

O autorze

Jennifer Rich is the Executive Director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rowan University, USA. Her work appears in Hechinger Report, The Conversation, The Philadelphia Inquirer, EdWeek, and The Washington Post.

Blurb

This book offers an innovative perspective on the intersection of politics, education, and social problems. It considers how we can create social change by talking about politics and social problems in more open, direct, and inclusive ways in educational spaces. Drawing on data from a range of settings, this book closely examines how and when complicated conversations take place in classrooms, schools, and communities. The book tackles a series of hot-button, timely issues, including race, religion, politics, and gender, and turns a critical eye to schools and the communities in which they are situated; the conversations adults have—and pointedly ignore—with one another; and, perhaps most critically, the politics that shape our society. 

 

Jennifer Rich is the Executive Director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rowan University, USA. Her work appears in Hechinger Report, The Conversation, The Philadelphia Inquirer, EdWeek, and The Washington Post.