We Don't Need Another Hero : Struggle, Hope, and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling
ISBN: 9780807753507 | 0807753505
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Teachers College Pr
Pub. Date: 10/19/2012
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In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just "achieve." Drawing on his experiences over the past two decades as a classroom teacher, community volunteer, researcher, and teacher educator in Chicago's public schools, Michie offers compelling accounts of teaching and learning in urban America. Mindful of the complex realities educators face, he portrays urban schools as they really are: sites of struggle, hope, and possibility. At a time when others relentlessly trumpet a competitive, data-driven, corporatized notion of education, the essays in We Don't Need Another Hero challenge the dominant images of failing urban schools and bad teachers. Like Michie's now classic Holler If You Hear Me, this book gives much-needed hope to new and seasoned teachers alike. It is also an important resource for school administrators, policymakers, parents, and anyone who wants to better understand what is really happening in American schools.
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Teaching | |
| Teaching in the Undertow: Resisting the Pull of Schooling-as-Usual | p. 3 |
| All Together Now | p. 10 |
| We Don't Need Another Hero | p. 22 |
| From the Trading Floor to the Classroom: Charlie's Story | p. 30 |
| Seeing, Hearing, and Talking Race: Lessons for White Teachers from Teachers... MORE | p. 38 |
| Fire and Water: Reflections on Teaching in the City | p. 50 |
| Youth on the Margins | |
| Juan at 16 | p. 59 |
| Some Kind of Justice | p. 64 |
| Ground Zero | p. 68 |
| A Real Alternative: Tragedy and Hope on Chicago's South Side | p. 79 |
| At the Edges of a Dream | p. 86 |
| The Bigger Picture | |
| Elephants in the Room | p. 95 |
| Another Path Is Possible | p. 102 |
| The Trouble with "Innovation" in Schools | p. 111 |
| Race to the Top of What?: In Search of the Democratic Ideal in Education | p. 115 |
| Notes | p. 131 |
| References | p. 135 |
| Index | p. 141 |
| About the Author | p. 147 |
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Gregory Michie is a public school teacher in Chicago, and senior research associate at the Center for Policy Studies and Social Justice at Concordia University. Chicago. He is the bestselling author of Holler If You Hear Me (Second Edition) and See You When We Get There.
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