Teaching Toward Democracy 2e: Educators as Agents of Change - Hardcover

Ayers, William; Kumashiro, Kevin; Meiners, Erica; Quinn, Therese; Stovall, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138690619 ISBN 13: 9781138690615

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Teaching Toward Democracy examines the contested space of schooling and school reform with a focus on the unique challenges and opportunities that teaching in a democratic society provides. Chapters are written in the spirit of notes, conversations and letters the nationally recognized team of authors wish they received in their journeys into teaching. Building on the conversational and accessible approach, this revised edition includes additional dialogues amongst the authors to further explore how they have individually and collectively reflected on the qualities of mind that teachers explore and work to develop as they become more effective educators. Inspiring and uplifting, Teaching Toward Democracy adds to the repertoire of skills teachers can access in their classrooms and encourages the confidence to locate themselves within the noble tradition of teaching as democratic work.

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), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, where he taught courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education, Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is currently the vice-president of the curriculum studies division of the American Educational Research Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138690619
• ISBN 13: 9781138690615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186