Teaching and learning on the verge : democratic education in action / Shanti Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Shanti, author.

Series:

Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)

Multicultural education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Study and teaching.

Democracy.

Democracy and education.

Physical Description:

xvi, 224 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2015]

Summary:

Our changing world demands that all students become agile thinkers who can develop sturdy interpersonal and civic relationships. This book proposes that teachers who think of learning as "playing with power" tap into the creative and subvesive energies of young people, making academic work far more consequential than a piece of paper with a grade on it. Young people must learn to play democracy just as they might play a violin or a sport, not as a game of "let's pretend," but participating fully in the language, spaces, and possibilities of public life. Based on 20 years of teaching experience and research in schools across the country (including Rudy Lozano Leadership Academy in Chicago, June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco, and Urban Academy in New York). Teaching and Learning on the Verge Demonstrates how educators in all disciplines can integrate civic engagement, multicultural literacy, and leadership into their classrooms and programs. Featuring voices from literature and philosophy in dialogue with the living stage of classrooms, streets, and community spaces, this book offers an imaginative and practical guide to democratic education. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Social Action as Ritual 24

Environmental Justice and the Literature Classroom 33

From Service Learning to Democratic Education 45

2 Leadership in Love and Struggle: Learning to Be Allies 53

Highlander Folk School: Learning Leadership-in-Alliance 62

Relational Learning: Cross-Cultural Exchange as Counternarrative 69

Sooking Up Stories: Oral History for Democratic Learning 76

Questioning Hierarchical Power: Adult Allies and Youth Leaders 78

3 Unruly Teachers: Collective Reflective Resistance 81

Civil Disobedience Class: A Pedagogy of Hearing Many Voices 85

Arts of Teaching and Learning dissent: Cross-School Educators in Public Spaces 96

4 Public Play: On Hull-House, Theatre of the Oppressed, and Other Democratic Spaces 110

The Play of Democratic Life 110

Death and the Maidens: Theatre of the Oppressed with Students at the National Museum of Mexican Art 118

Closing Public Schools: Theatre of the Oppressed with Students and Parents at Francis W. Parker School 130

5 On Accountability and the Educating of Counternarrators 139

Counternarrators: Rudy Lozano Leadership Academy in chicago 139

Resistance and Power: June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco 148

Holding Power Accountable: Urban Academy in New York 153

6 Building Sustainable Education: A Dissenting Democratic Countertradition 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807756416

0807756415

9780807756423

0807756423

OCLC:

904183085