Reimagining the public intellectual in education : making scholarship matter / edited by Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin and Cynthia Reyes.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Gerstl-Pepin, Cynthia I., editor.
• Reyes, Cynthia, 1960- editor.
• James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

• Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 463.
• Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education ; vol. 463

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Educational leadership--Social aspects.
• Intellectuals--Social conditions.
• Critical pedagogy.
• Education and globalization.
• Postmodernism and education.
• Intellectuals.
• Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

xvi, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2015]

Summary:

While the term "public intellectual" has been used to describe scholars who seek to share their research with the public, little work has been done to examine the role of a public intellectual in the field of education. This book builds upon the notion of the public intellectual in a way that makes the term more accessible, using it to refer to education scholars who seek to share their research outside of academia. Media coverage of educational issues is rife with self-appointed experts on education who have claimed space in public discussions to define educational problems and dominate public dialogues on education. But where are the education researchers in these academic dialogues? This book addresses their absence, sharing the stories of scholars who are seeking to enter public dialogues and reclaim space for reasoned dialogue on education. The stories of public scholars highlighted here acknowledge that the policymaking arena is teeming with value conflicts that can lead to dismissing or ignoring research if it does not fit with political agendas. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Crisscrossing from classrooms to cartoons : social science satire / Michael F. Giangreco
• "Languaging their lives", places of engagement, and collaborations with urban youth / Valerie Kinloch
• Reframing : we are not public intellectuals, we are movement intellectuals / Margarita Machado-Casas, Belinda Bustos Flores, Enrique Murillo, Jr.
• Scholarly personal narrative as a way to connect the academy to the world / Robert J. Nash
• When a public intellectual speaks out but no one hears her, does she exist? / Susan Ohanian
• The naked seminar : blogging as public education outside the classroom / Sherman Dorn
• The public intellectual : the changing context : implications for attributes and practices / William J. Mathis
• Reflections of a "stunt intellectual" : caught in the crosshairs of "public" controversy / William Ayers
• Traveling down a desire line : surviving where academia and community meet / JuliAnna Ávila
• Conversations that matter : community-based practice in support of the public good / Alan Tinkler and Barri Tinkler
• An inevitable dichotomy ... really? : harmonizing public intellectual work with academic work / Steven Jay Gross
• Reimagining the public intellectual in education : making scholarship matter / Cynthia Reyes and Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781433125218
• 1433125218
• 9781433125201
• 143312520X

OCLC:

890377359

Publisher Number:

99962328727

Online:

The James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund Home Page