She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth-grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book underscores the importance of including all of the girls' voices into the curriculum where their voices can be nurtured, cultured, and responded to in potentially productive ways. Through an exploration of two major writing contexts, the public and the private, Brett Elizabeth Blake chronicles how the girls learned through their writing not only how to name issues salient to them, such as domesticity and racism, but also how to resist the underlying notions of...
She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth-grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book underscores the impor...
For William Ayers, noted educator and activist, -the allure of teaching, that ineffable magic drawing me back to the classroom again and again, issues from an ideal that lies directly at its heart: Teaching, at its best, is an enterprise that helps human beings reach the full measure of their humanity.- In Teaching Toward Freedom, Ayers illuminates the hope as well as the conflict that characterize the entire project of education: how it can be used in authoritarian and dehumanizing ways in the service of the state, the church, or a restrictive existing social order-an idea he...
For William Ayers, noted educator and activist, -the allure of teaching, that ineffable magic drawing me back to the classroom again and again, issues...
A teacher in a detention center school describes his experiences with Chicago's juvenile court system and the difficulties of the children who pass through it.
A teacher in a detention center school describes his experiences with Chicago's juvenile court system and the difficulties of the children who pass th...
This important book is the result of an in-depth inquiry into the lives and work of six outstanding preschool teachers. Through a creative, original combination of interviews, letters, vignettes, interpretive analysis, and reflections, the author describes and links together the events, people, and experiences that have made these women the excellent teachers they are.
This important book is the result of an in-depth inquiry into the lives and work of six outstanding preschool teachers. Through a creative, original c...
A Light in Dark Times features a list of contributors who have been deeply influenced by Professor Greene's progressive philosophies. While Maxine Greene is the focus for this collection, each chapter is an encounter with her ideas by an educator concerned with his or her own works and projects. In essence, each featured author takes off from Maxine Greene and then moves forward.
A Light in Dark Times features a list of contributors who have been deeply influenced by Professor Greene's progressive philosophies. While Maxine Gre...
This collection of essays identifies the ways in which school restructuring strategies connect to the ongoing pursuit of social justice. The contributors are educators and advocates for youth, who think that changing schools can change the world.
This collection of essays identifies the ways in which school restructuring strategies connect to the ongoing pursuit of social justice. The contribut...
Teaching for Social Justice These essays follow a veteran teacher educator and school reform activist as he tries to understand an enterprise he calls mysterious and immeasurable. By focusing on the authentic experiences of his teaching and learning, Bill Ayers reconsiders, argues, reflects, and searches for ways to break through the routine and the ordinary to see teaching as the important and extraordinary work it is. Covering a range of issues - standards, equity, testing, professionalism - this book shows us teaching as an achingly personal calling, and ultimately a social and political...
Teaching for Social Justice These essays follow a veteran teacher educator and school reform activist as he tries to understand an enterprise he calls...
"Democracy and Education" has been the leading voice of the nineties for engaged teaching. "Teaching for Social Justice" collects the best of the journal.
Featuring a unique mix of hands-on, historical, and inspirational writings, the topics covered include education through social action, writing and community building, and adult literacy. An extensive teacher file and resource section survey teaching tools from curricula to activist-oriented websites. Next in The New Press s award-winning education publishing program, "Teaching for Social Justice" engages parents, citizens, students,...
"Democracy and Education" has been the leading voice of the nineties for engaged teaching. "Teaching for Social Justice" collects the best of the j...
Zero tolerance began as a prohibition against guns, but it has quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in American schools. Ironically, as this timely collection makes clear, recent research indicates that as schools adopt more zero tolerance policies they in fact become less safe, in part because the first casualties of these measures are the central, critical relationships between teacher and student and between school and community.
"Zero Tolerance" assembles prominent educators and intellectuals, including the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.,...
Zero tolerance began as a prohibition against guns, but it has quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in A...
