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Teaching to Change the World is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, social-justice oriented introduction to education and teaching, and the challenges and opportunities they present.

Teaching to Change the World is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, social-justice oriented introduction to education and teaching, and the challenges and opportunities they present.

Considering the values and politics that pervade education, this book asks questions about how conventional thinking and practice came to be and who benefits from them. It pays attention to inequalities associated with race, social class, language, gender, and other social categories and looks for alternatives to the inequalities.

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Major "paradigm shifts"-replacing one "world view" with another­ regarding what constitutes appropriate knowledge do not happen over­ night. Centuries usually intervene in the process. Even minor shifts­ admitting alternative world views into the domain of legitimate knowledge­ producing theory and practice-require decades of controversy, especially, it seems to us, in the field of education. It has only been in the last 20 years or so that th...

Creating New Educational Communities brings together fourteen essays on reforming elementary and secondary school education in the United States. The essays focus on measures designed to fully exploit all students' capacity to learn--even those who perform poorly on conventional intelligence tests or in traditional classroom settings. The contributors feature reports on innovative projects implemented in schools across the United States. Goals...

A convincing portrait of teachers actively engaged in educational reform...offering a hopeful yet realistic vision of revitalized democracy inspired by a passion for the public good. This book is an eloquent defense of civic virtue."--Jonathan Kozol, author of "Amazing Grace" and "Savage Inequalities" "Rich, realistic, invigorating, and scary. Any middle school educator who has been part of an effort to reform the educational process will see ...

Major "paradigm shifts"-replacing one "world view" with another­ regarding what constitutes appropriate knowledge do not happen over­ night. Centuries usually intervene in the process. Even minor shifts­ admitting alternative world views into the domain of legitimate knowledge­ producing theory and practice-require decades of controversy, especially, it seems to us, in the field of education. It has only been in the last 20 years or so that th...

In cities across the nation, low-income African-American and Latino parents hope their children's education will bring a better life. But their schools, typically, are overcrowded, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. This work offers a radical approach to school reform that stresses grassroots public activism.