Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565844203 ISBN 13: 9781565844209

Publisher: The New Press, 1998

Synopsis

Democracy and Education has been the leading voice of the nineties for engaged teaching. Teaching for Social Justice collects the best of the journal.

Featuring a unique mix of hands-on, historical, and inspirational writings, the topics covered include education through social action, writing and community building, and adult literacy. An extensive “teacher file” and resource section survey teaching tools from curricula to activist-oriented websites. Next in The New Press’s award-winning education publishing program, Teaching for Social Justice engages parents, citizens, students, and teachers in a conversation about the basis for education in a democracy.

About this title

About the Author:

William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired). He co-edited City Kids, City Teachers; Teaching for Social Justice; Zero Tolerance; and City Kids, City Schools (all available from The New Press).

Jean Ann Hunt, editor of Democracy and Education, is coordinator for the Institute for Democracy in Education.

Therese Quinn is chair and associate professor of art history and the director of the Museum and Exhibition Studies program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a co-editor (with William Ayers and Jean Ann Hunt) of Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader (The New Press).

From Library Journal:

Most accessible but not limited to graduate students and faculty, this is a wide-ranging anthology of articles/readings originally published in the education serial Democracy and Education. It is an enlightening book whose topics include community building, adult literacy, empowerment, diversity education, responsibility, social action education, and writing. "Teaching for social justice" is teaching what one believes ought to be in terms of material arrangements for people in all spheres of society, i.e., reflective experiential responses leading to action. Writers represented are Michael Apple, Jonathan Kozol, Herbert Kohl, Henry Giroux, and 42 others. An extensive bibliography and a list of organizations, periodicals, web sites, and Popular Education institutes round out the text. Editors Ayers (Univ. of Illinois), Jean Anne Hunt (editor, Democracy and Education), and Therese Quinn (doctoral candidate, Univ. of Illinois) have put together a useful resource for academic collections.?Scott R. Johnson, Meridian Community Coll. Lib., MS
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About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1565844203
• ISBN 13: 9781565844209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: William Ayers, Jean Ann Hunt, Therese Quinn