We Saved the Best for You : Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators / edited by Tricia M. Kress, Robert Lake.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kress, Tricia M.

Lake, Robert.

Series:

Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As standardization and “accountability” have continued to increase in the 21st century, educators and scholars of education have become increasingly frustrated. Yet as frustrated as we are, it is essential that we not send to our our students, children, grandchildren the message that the past was better and they “should have been there.” Instead, we must render a clear vision of what can be. Indeed, where would we be without the vision we have been freely given to us from great scholars, philosophers, and artists, as well as our own teachers, friends, neighbors, and family? We are indebted to carry forward the legacy of these torchbearers to present and future educators. This book is a collection of letters to 21st century educators of all age levels and content areas. It has been compiled with the goal of fulfilling our responsibility to share with the next generation of educators our vision of the future, just as our predecessors and role models shared theirs with us. Informed by the past but oriented toward the future, this collection aims to inspire in present and future educators hope, wisdom and imagination for addressing the educational challenges shaped by bureaucratic, economic and cultural forces. Authors such as Nel Noddings, Sonia Nieto, Sandy Grande, Riane Eisler, Mike Rose, William Schubert, William Reynolds, and many more speak directly to their readers, building a relationship with a scholarly backbone, and encouraging: “we saved the best for you” because “the best” is the world you will create.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Tricia M. Kress and Robert Lake

Tilting at Windmills / Tricia M. Kress

Challenging Inexorability / Carolyn Ali-Khan

Locating the Hope in Bone-deep Participation / Eve Tuck

Dear Comrades / Sandy Grande

Finding Hope and Giving Thanks in “Dark Times” / Greg McClure

Spelling Hope / Carl Leggo

Brown Pride in a College Classroom / Christopher Darius Stonebanks

The Stubborn Persistence of Hope / William M. Reynolds

Finding Your Passion, Feeding Your Soul / Rosalina Diaz

Letter of Hope / Gillian U. Bayne

Imagining Educational Spaces of Possibility, Hope, and Joy / Christina Siry

Imagination, Play and Becoming the Text / Robert Lake

Portrait of Thinking / Mike Rose

The Tau’olunga / Kevin Smith

Staying Open to Surprise… A Necessary Responsibility / Patricia Paugh

Teachers as DJ’s / Jennifer D. Adams

Toward a New Audacity of Imagination / Julie Maudlin

Letter to a Young Teacher / Rick Ayers

Look Deeply Within and Share / William H. Schubert

The Way it was, the Way it is / Sonia Nieto

The Most Unlikely Places / Rebecca Martusewicz

Om Mani Padme Hum / Jennifer L. Milam

West’s Self-Creation / James C. Jupp

Language, Creation, and Mlk / Clyde Coreil

Partnership Education / Riane Eisler

The Perpetual Flame of Curiousity / Ana Cruz

The Immense Value of Doubt / Susan Verducci

Make the Best of What’s Around / Tina Wagle

To Dare be an Inspired, Satiated, Soulful Teacher / Kurt Love

You are not Alone / Donna DeGennaro

Teachers as Critical Thinkers / Nel Noddings

Of Kids and Cokes / Brian D. Schultz

“You didn’t Connect with me” / Melissa Winchell

The Nature and Practices of Urban Science Education / Christopher Emdin

Looking back on Teaching in Detroit / Robert W. Simmons

Labor Education and “Oppositional Knowledge” / Helena Worthen

Something from Nothing / Robert Danberg

Letter to a Writing Teacher / Thomas Lake

Actualizing an Ethic of Care in the (Mathematics) Classroom / Roser Giné

Keep the Faith / Dennis Littky

A Game and a Dare / Peter Appelbaum

Just Keep it Real / Susan Jean Mayer

Picture this / Megan J. Laverty

Children are our Hope for the Future / Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon

The Best is yet to Come / Tianlong Yu

On Behalf of Vygotsky / Lois Holzman

Letter from Hegel to the Educators of the 21st Century / Andy Blunden

Pedagogy of Disobedience / Joan Braune

Letter to Educators / Curry Stephenson Malott

When Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things / Pepi Leistyna

Slow Love / Pauline Sameshima

To be a Teacher / M. Cathrene Connery

About the Authors / Tricia M. Kress and Robert Lake.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789462091214

9462091218

9789462091221

9462091226

OCLC:

828921110