Noah Borrero, Patrick Roz Camangian, Richard Ayers, Sharim Hannegan-Martinez, Esther Flores

Half an Inch from the Edge (eBook, ePUB)

Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Half an Inch from the Edge: Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation is a book about the tensions and opportunities reflected in today's public school classrooms in the U.S. Through detailed case studies of four classrooms, the authors explore socially transformative pedagogy in action. The result is a narrative that intertwines a critical social analysis of our educational system with real-life examples from K-12 classrooms. The four teachers highlighted in the book are new, urban, socially-conscious educators of Color who strive to make their classrooms something new and something different-spaces where youth can learn about and express their own cultural identities as a part of the curriculum. These stories are told through the creation, implementation, analysis, and assessment of teachers' action research projects as they complete their Masters degrees and begin their first years as full-time teachers. Central to each of the case studies-which span multiple grade levels and content areas-is a focus on self-reflection, a deep desire to build meaningful relationships with students, and a quest to make learning relevant to students' lived experiences. Also painfully clear is the role of failure, and the tremendous creativity, ingenuity, and persistence of these new teachers, as they learn alongside their students and together fight the injustices inherent in their schools, districts, and the national system of education. Ultimately, the portraits of these teachers show that amidst all of the forces working against them and their students, there is hope-hope that the great experiment of American public education can transform into a system that serves all students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475832624
• Artikelnr.: 57895410

Autorenporträt

Noah Borrero's scholarship is grounded in the belief that the cultural strengths of communities provide unique opportunities for teaching, learning, and social transformation. He teaches courses in bilingual education, critical pedagogy, action research, learning theory, and teaching for diversity and social justice. Patrick Camangian engages in grassroots and professional efforts to advocate for humanizing, socially transformative education as a university professor, district and school-based educator, and community organizer. Currently, he is turning to both critical theory and research in the health sciences to inform his research findings on systemic harm, social resistance, and health and well-being in education. Rick Ayers' research and writing focuses on social justice and critical pedagogy in education. He is author or co-author of a number of books, including Teaching the Taboo, An Empty Seat in Class: Teaching and Learning After the Death of a Student, and You can't fire the bad ones: And 18 other myths about teachers, teachers unions, and public education.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Socially transformative teaching: Disrupting White supremacy
Chapter One: Notes to Mr. G: Making an entirely new story
Chapter Two: Reflections on Mr. G: Humanizing connections through relevant
data
Chapter Three: Autoethnographies with Esther: Building community and
self-discipline
Chapter Four: Reflections on Esther: Assessment - authentic vs. repressive
Chapter Five: Reading the World and the Word with Sharim and Cam: The power
of performance poetry
Chapter Six: Reflections on Sharim and Cam: Youth voice, student literacies
Chapter Seven: Routines for liberation with Ms. A: Classroom community in
third grade
Chapter Eight: Reflections on Ms. A: Revisiting the purpose of schooling
Chapter Nine: Socially transformative pedagogy and the tasks for urban
teachers
References
About the Authors