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

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138690627 ISBN 13: 9781138690622

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

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 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.

Kevin K. Kumashiro is Professor and Chair of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education. His recent books include "The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America s Schools" and "Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice".

Erica R. Meiners, a Professor of Education and Women's Studies at Northeastern Illinois University, is the author of Right to be Hostile: Schools, Prisons and the Making of Public Enemies (2007). She participates in a number of local educational justice projects, including teaching and coordinating a high school for formerly incarcerated men and women.

David Stovall is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of numerous scholarly and popular articles, poems, polemics, and reviews and an editor of the "Handbook of Social Justice in Education".

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138690627
• ISBN 13: 9781138690622
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186