Teaching Defiance : Stories and Strategies for Activist Educators

by Newman, Michael; Brookfield, Stephen D.

• ISBN13: 9780787985561
• ISBN10: 0787985562
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-05
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Michael Newmana two-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Educationexamines the use of rational discourse, nonrational discourse, and storytelling to bring about personal and collective change. Using a powerful blend of theoretical discussion and step-by-step accounts of practice, Newman returns to what actually happens in that magical encounter between teacher and learner. He examines the educational use of emotions such as frustration, dismay, anger, hatred and love. He proposes ways of teaching and learning insight. He examines how educators can teach people to take effective action. And he discusses how educators and learners can work together to make that action morally justifiable. Newman argues that the educator's role is to help people resist the controls imposed on them by others. The task, the challenge, the mission of the activist educator is to teach defiance.

Author Biography

Michael Newman is an internationally renowned consultant and author in the field of adult education. He is a two-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, awarded by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.

Table of Contents

Foreword (Stephen Brookfield).

Preamble.

About the Author.

Part One: Making a Start.

1. Taking Sides.

Part Two: Rebelliousness and Defiance.

2. Rebelliousness.

3. Inspiring Rebelliousness.

4. Defiance, Choice and Consciousness.

Part Three: Choosing and Taking Control.

5. Teaching Choice.

6. Collective Decision Making.

7. Teaching Dialogue.

8. Conflict, Negotiation and Power.

9. Teaching Negotiation.

10. Negotiation, Consciousness and Reflection.

11. Disruptive Negotiation.

Part Four: Insight and Action.

12. Nonrational Discourse and Insight.

13. Facilitating Insight.

14. Revisiting Insight.

15. Teaching About Action.

Part Five: Defiance and Morality.

16. Constructing Moralities.

17. Storytelling.

18. Relative and Foundational Moralities.

19. Hating and Loving.

Postscript.

References.

Index.