Controversies in the Classroom

by Entin, Joseph; Rosen, Robert C.; Vogt, Leonard; Meier, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780807749128
• ISBN10: 0807749125
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Controversies in the Classroom features the most important and exciting writing from the past 15 years of Radical Teacher magazine. This is a must-read for all teachers who are committed to creative pedagogy and social justice.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Teaching About War
Whose Terrorism?	p. 9
Can Vietnam Awaken Us Again? Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War	p. 22
Dialogues About 9/11, the Media, and Race: Lessons from a Secondary Classroom	p. 29
Teaching About Globalization
What Is Globalization?	p. 43
Sweating the Small Stuff: Mickey, Michael, and the Global Sweatshop	p. 53
Planting Seeds of Solidarity	p. 61
Teaching About Race, Ethnicity, and Language
Revisiting the Struggle for Integration	p. 73
A High School Class on Race and Racism	p. 83
Naming and Interrogating Our English-Only Legacy	p. 97
Teaching About Gender and Sexualities
Teaching and Learning Through Desire, Crisis, and Difference: Perverted Reflections on Anti-oppressive Education	p. 113
Bridging Multicultural Education: Bringing Sexual Orientation into the Children's and Young Adult Literature Classrooms	p. 126
Nuns, Midwives, and Witches: Women's Studies in the Elementary Classroom	p. 136
Threats to Public Education: Testing, Tracking, and Privatization
Leaving Public Education Behind	p. 145
"I Plan to Be Somebody": The Absence of Tracking Is a Deeply Radical Idea	p. 150
After Katrina: Tales from a Chartered School Classroom	p. 161
Epilogue: Paulo Freire: On Hope	p. 167
About the Editors and the Contributors	p. 175
Index	p. 179
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