Volatile Knowing Parents, Teachers, and the Censored Story of Accountability in America's Public Schools

by Tollefson, Kaia; Greene, Maxine

• ISBN13: 9780739115602
• ISBN10: 073911560X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-03
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Volatile Knowing refers to the potential for positive change that can result when parents and teachers discuss the politics and policies of externally defined accountability mandates in education. Kaia Tollefson tells the story of twelve teachers and parents who breached the unofficial but deeply inscribed home-school divide to discuss the current accountability-for-uniformity movement that has overtaken the nation's educational agenda at federal, state, and local levels. This kind of volatile knowing offers hope that-together-parents and teachers can ignite a new child-centered movement for accountability and creativity in America's public schools.

Author Biography

Kaia Tollefson is assistant professor of education at California State University Channel Islands.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Accountability in the Schools: What the People Don't Know	p. 1
Challenging the Virtually Unchallenged: A Personal Experience	p. 11
Making Sense of the Accountability Movement: Organized (and Profitable) Malevolence Against the Public Schools	p. 21
Redefining Accountability in Our Schools: Inviting Parents to the Learning Community	p. 45
Research Findings: Tracing a Path Toward Hope	p. 91
The Inversion of Visibility	p. 125
The Instruments of Discipline	p. 135
Reframing the Panopticon	p. 161
Appendices
Methodology	p. 171
Discipline in the Public School Panopticon	p. 191
Osmosis & the Evolution of the Public School Panopticon	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 203
About the Author	p. 209
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