Unsettling Education: Searching for Ethical Footing in a Time of Reform

ISBN-13: 9781433163500 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 236 str.

Brian Charest; Kate Sjostrom

Opis

Unsettling Education: Searching for Ethical Footing in a Time of Reform shares stories of teachers resisting mandates to teach to the test in dehumanizing ways by de-commodifying educational spaces and enacting their ethical commitments to students and communities.

Recenzje

"From the educational 'standards' being compelled onto students, to the rhetoric of educational 'reform' being sold to communities and educators alike, the problem is not merely the silencing of dissent but the presumption that there is no alternative. What better intervention than the call by Brian Charest, Kate Sjostrom, and colleagues for us all to engage in 'unsettling education.' All who teach and who care about teaching will find sources of inspiration and nourishment in the richly detailed and deeply thoughtful portraits of K-12 teachers and teaching that model for us what this can look like in times, like now, when pressure abounds to settle." -Kevin Kumashiro, Author of Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Brian Charest/Kate Sjostrom: Introduction - Section I: The Promise of Unsettling Moments - Introduction - Avi Lessing/Glynis Kinnan: Against Measurement: Making a Case for School Play - Angela Whitacre de Resendiz/Will Hudson: Calculating Justice? Using Mathematical Mindsets for Teaching From a Social Justice Perspective - Noah Asher Golden: Challenging Misrecognitions Through Reflexive Teacher Education: Knowing and Growing in an Age of Commodification - Section II: Pedagogies of Resistance - Introduction - Sarah J. Donovan: Beyond Mandates and Measurement: Imagining a Gradeless Classroom - Matthew Homrich-Knieling/Alex Corbitt: Pedagogies of Resistance: Reflecting on the Successes and Challenges of Humanizing Classrooms in a Time of Standardization and Accountability - Mikela Bjork: Compulsory Heterosexuality: Unsettling and Undoing the Hidden Curriculum of Heteronormativity in Schools - Section III: Unsettling Education Through Institutional Critiques - Introduction - James McCoyne: Managing Teachers: Efficiency and Human Relations in Education - Kevin Christopher Carey: Motivation, Mental Health, and the Eclipse of Social Imagination - Samantha Young/Deborah Bieler: A Look Into Leaving: Learning From One Equity-Oriented Teacher's Resignation - Russell Mayo: "all schooled up": One Teacher's Path Toward Deschooling - Epilogue - Jay Gillen: Everyone Knows Whose Side I'm On: Teachers, Students, and the Struggle for Freedom - Contributors.

O autorze

Brian Charest, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Redlands. He has presented locally and nationally and published articles on teaching, equity, civic engagement, community organizing, social justice, ethics, and radical pragmatism.

Kate Sjostrom, PhD, is a lecturer and assistant director of English education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on writing teacher identity development in the context of education reforms, as well as on the potential for teacher-writing to build teachers' advocacy.