Teacher education with an attitude : preparing teachers to educate working-class students in their collective self-interest / edited by Patrick J. Finn and Mary E. Finn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finn, Patrick J.

Finn, Mary E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Training of--Curricula--United States.

Teachers.

Multiculturalism--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism--Study and teaching (Higher).

Teachers--Training of--Curricula.

Teachers--Training of.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]

Summary:

Using a social justice approach to teacher education, the contributing teacher educators address the need to prepare teachers to understand the way social class, race, and culture impact their efforts to educate working-class students. By helping prepare teachers to strengthen democracy through education, the contributors offer ways to help them develop "critical consciousness"-the will to address society's injustices and inequities. Teachers who collaborate actively with their students, their families, and others, such as community and labor organizers, to challenge the economic and educational policies that keep the hierarchical structure in place, develop their own educational and political power alongside their students. These educators see schools as sites of struggle for democracy, and their students learn to direct their attitude toward outcomes that are in their collective self-interest.

Contents:

Introduction / Patrick J. Finn and Mary E. Finn

Addressing issues of class, race, and culture

Teacher education with an attitude : completing the revolution / Patrick J. Finn

Labor deserves credit : the popular education foundations of the National Labor College / Susan J. Schurman

Coalition for educational justice : antiracist organizing and teacher education / Alex Caputo-Pearl, Kahllid A. Al-Alim, and Frances A. Martin

Social justice teacher education in undergraduate courses

Developing critically reflective practitioners : integrating a practice-reflection-theory cycle of learning in an undergraduate literacy course / Gillian S. Richardson and Rosemary K. Murray

Teacher education and community organizing / Dennis Shirley

Learning to act : interactive performance and preservice teacher education / Rosalie M. Romano

Social justice teacher education in graduate school

New literacies with an attitude : transformative teacher education through digital video learning tools / Suzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz

The journey to justice : inquiry as a framework for teaching powerful literacy / Diane Zigo

Accessing praxis : practicing theory, theorizing practice in social justice teachers' first year of teaching / Peter Hoffman-Kipp and Brad Olsen

Russian children in American schools : towards intercultural dialogue in diverse classrooms and teacher preparation programs / Vladimir Ageyev

Social justice teacher education through professional development

Urban teacher development that changes classrooms, curriculum, and achievement / Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade

Literacy with an attitude and understanding the water we swim in / John Otterness

Popular education in Los Angelos high school classrooms : the collective bargaining education project / Linda Tubach

"We cannot avoid taking sides" : teacher unions, urban communities, and social justice in historical perspective / Lauri Johnson

For further thought / Mary E. Finn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791470350

9780791470350

0791470369

9780791470367

OCLC:

69027585