Practice What You Teach: Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets
ISBN: 9780415895392 | 0415895391
Edition: 1stFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 5/29/2012
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"Many teachers enter the profession with a desire to "make a difference." But given who most teachers are, where they come from, and what pressure they feel to comply with existing school policies, how can they take up this charge? Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators to explore the challenges of developing and supporting teachers' sense of social justice and activism at various stages of their careers: White pre-service teachers typically enrolled in most teacher education programs, a group of new teachers attemp... MORE
| Series Editor Introduction | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Appendices: Further Resources | p. xiii |
| Teacher Activism: Social Justice Education as a Strategy for Change | p. 1 |
| "Why Do We Have to Talk about Race Again?": Oppositional Stances and Tools of Whiteness | p. 17 |
| Teaching for Justice: Developing Strategies for Integrating SJE in the Classroom | p. 54 |
| Stuck at the Classroom Door: Falling B... MORE | p. 71 |
| Reconciling the Vision: Taking Action for Educational Justice | p. 87 |
| "Making a Difference": Teaching in the Classroom and Organizing in the Streets | p. 112 |
| Notes | p. 117 |
| Bibliography | p. 119 |
| Index | p. 127 |
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Bree Picower is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University and Core Member of the New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE). She is the co-editor the annual Planning to Change the World: A planbook for social justice teachers published by NYCoRE and the Education for Liberation Network.
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