Teaching for Social Justice

by Ayers et al, William

• ISBN13: 9781565844209
• ISBN10: 1565844203
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Teaching for Social Justice engages parents, citizens, students, and teachers in a conversation about education in a democracy. It features a unique mix of hands-on, historical, and inspirational writings on topics including education through social action, writing and community building, and adult literacy. An extensive "teacher file" and resource section surveys teaching tools from curricula to activist-oriented Web sites. "Teaching for social justice is teaching what we believe ought to be. It is to teach so that the young may be awakened to the joy of working for transformation in the smallest places, so that they may become healers and change their worlds."--from the introduction by Maxine Greene.

Table of Contents

Preface: Of Stories, Seeds and the Promises of Social Justice	xiii	(4)
Jean Ann Hunt
Foreword: Popular Education-Teaching for Social Justice	xvii	(10)
William Ayers
Introduction: Teaching for Social Justice	xxvii
Maxine Greene
1 Education for Action-Preparing Youth for Participatory Democracy	1	(20)
Joel Westheimer
Joseph Kahne
2 The Human Lives Behind the Labels-The Global Sweatshop, Nike, and the Race to the Bottom	21	(18)
Bill Bigelow
3 Writing the Word and the World	39	(20)
Linda Christensen
An Activist Forum I: Awakening Justice	48	(7)
Haywood Burns
Caroline Heller
Lisa Delpit
Mike Rose
Barbara T. Bowman
Portraits: In the Raindrop	55	(4)
4 School Days	59	(9)
Nelson Peery
5 "We'd All Be Holding Hands"-A Reentry Women's Learning Community	68	(13)
Diane Horwitz
6 A Grassroots Think Tank-Linking Writing and Community Building	81	(17)
Hal Adams
7 Roses and Daggers	98	(4)
Patrick McMahon
8 No Little I's and No Little You's-Language and Equality in an Adult Literacy Community	102	(33)
Kate Power
An Activist Forum II: Fault Lines	124	(11)
Anna Deavere Smith
Therese Quinn
Jonathan Silin
Kim Murray
Elizabeth Alexander
9 On a Mission-Hazel Johnson and Marvin Garcia	135	(15)
Therese Quinn
10 A Dream That Keeps on Growing-Myles Horton and Highlander	150	(7)
William Ayers
11 The Good Fight-Bill Gandall	157	(4)
Susan Huddleston Edgerton
12 History of My Subversive Teaching	161	(8)
Rachel Koch
13 The Fourth R	169	(31)
Maureen Reddy
An Activist Forum III: Counter Tales	186	(11)
Rashid Khalidi
William Watkins
Jennifer Dohrn
Noel Ignatiev
Luis J. Rodriguez
Possibilities: Joining Hands	197	(3)
14 "Do You Know Where You Are?"-A Memoir of Becoming a South Sider	200	(11)
Jamie Kalven
15 The Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner Academy	211	(4)
16 Women of Hope	215	(13)
17 Chaos Theory-A Journal Entry	228	(21)
Rick Ayers
An Activist Forum IV: Pledging to the World	237	(12)
Jay Rehak
Chris Carger
Jim Carnes
Mark Perry
George Wood
18 School Projects Investing in Community Development	249	(5)
19 A Story for Justice	254	(16)
Jaylynne N. Hutchinson
Rosalie M. Romano
20 Welfare Workbook	270	(7)
21 Teaching for Change	277	(8)
Deborah Stern
Afterword: Some Reflections on Teaching for Social Justice	285	(3)
Herbert Kohl
An Activist Forum V: Racing Justice	288	(7)
Michele Foster
Henry Giroux
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Jonathan Kozol
Michael Apple
Resources	295	(21)
Books	316
Classroom Resources	297	(1)
Organizations	297	(6)
Periodicals	303	(5)
Popular Education Institutes	308	(1)
Websites	309	(2)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS	311