An outline of some of the major tenets that have been constructed recently around critical educational issues, typically termed critical pedagogy. This primer on critical pedagogy is grounded on personal narrative dealing with understanding schools as part of broader moral and spiritual crisis.

A discussion of how traditional views of teacher education subject areas do not prepare students for urban education. It argues for a move to more progressive thinking about urban education and a departmental consciousness that seriously engages school restructuring for urban education.

A discussion of how traditional views of teacher education subject areas do not prepare students for urban education. It argues for a move to more progressive thinking about urban education and a departmental consciousness that seriously engages school restructuring for urban education.

This text advocates theory and practice for the transformation of inner city education through the development and application of critical principles grounded in the postmodern, the moral and possibility. The contributors argue for the construction of a more democratic praxis for urban education.

This text advocates theory and practice for the transformation of inner city education through the development and application of critical principles grounded in the postmodern, the moral and possibility. The contributors argue for the construction of a more democratic praxis for urban education.

An outline of some of the major tenets that have been constructed recently around critical educational issues, typically termed critical pedagogy. This primer on critical pedagogy is grounded on personal narrative dealing with understanding schools as part of broader moral and spiritual crisis.

The Hope for Audacity: From Cynicism to Hope in Educational Leadership and Policy is authored by educators who feel compelled to make their voices heard fueled by their passion for authentic learning, their vision for the future of education, and their deep concern with the nurturing of our democracy, which they believe is being endangered by market-logic decisions in educational policy. This book is a thoughtful affirmation of the very tenets of President Obama s hopeful vision for this nation, not mere empty or cynical critique of his policies. However, the book also challenges him...

The Hope for Audacity: From Cynicism to Hope in Educational Leadership and Policy is authored by educators who feel compelled to make their voices heard fueled by their passion for authentic learning, their vision for the future of education, and their deep concern with the nurturing of our democracy, which they believe is being endangered by market-logic decisions in educational policy. This book is a thoughtful affirmation of the very tenets of President Obama s hopeful vision for this nation, not mere empty or cynical critique of his policies. However, the book also challenges him...

This volume is a collective departmental effort to delineate what a politics of inclusion on a more structural/macro-level might look like and the inclusion of politics on more micro-levels are as related to urban and other sites, particularly in regard to preservice teachers.