Organizing the curriculum : perspectives on teaching the us labor movement / Rob Linné & Leigh Benin & Adrienne Sosin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linné, Rob, author.

Sosin, Adrienne, author.

Benin, Leigh David, author.

Series:

Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education 41.

Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education; v. 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--Study and teaching.

Labor movement.

Labor movement--United States--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Sense Publishers, 2009.

Summary:

Contemporary American youth live in a culture that ignores or denigrates labor unions. Mainstream media cover labor issues only sparingly and unions no longer play much of a role in popular culture texts, films, or images. In our schools labor has been limited to a footnote in textbooks instead of being treated seriously as the most effective force for championing the rights of working people—the vast majority of the citizenry. Teachers have been convinced that to bring up class or to teach about the labor movement may be construed as “taking sides,” while the all-pervasive presence of corporate America in our schools is rarely questioned. So for all the talk of schools preparing young people for the work world, we are failing to teach them even the basics of how that world is structured or how they can be empowered through collective action. Organizing the Curriculum: Perspectives on Teaching the US Labor Movement is the first book-length treatment of this blind spot in contemporary curriculum and pedagogy. Contributors to this collection—unionists, activists, teachers, teacher educators, and academics—interrogate the ways in which knowledge is constructed in school discourses, conceptualize pedagogical strategies and curricula that open discussions around class analysis and political economy via studies of the labor movement, and put forward an activist vision of education that truly engages young people beyond the classroom walls.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Rob Linné , Leigh Benin and Adrienne Sosin

On Consumerism and Labor Consciousness / Leigh David Benin

Labor’s Exclusion from Official Knowledge / Rob Linné

A Letter to Family and Friends from the Labor Front / Courtney Snegroff and Leigh David Benin

Teacher Solidarity for Educational Excellence / Leigh David Benin and Adrienne Andi Sosin

A Paradigm Shift in the Making for Teachers of Working-Class Students / Patrick J. Finn

Teaching What Unions Do / Adrienne Andi Sosin , Joel Sosinsky , Cindy Impala and Karin Jones

An Essay On Racism, War, and Labor’s Struggle / Leigh David Benin

Mining Mathematics Education for Labor History / Peter Appelbaum and Bob Klein

Uncovering History through Biography and Personal Narrative / Laraine Wallowitz and Nicole Sieben

Using Educational Technology to Teach Students About Child Labor / Laura Benin

Lewis Hine and His Photo Stories / Deborah L. Smith-Shank and Kryssi Staikidis

Reading the Labor Movement / Adrienne Andi Sosin , Miriam Pepper-Sanello , Susan Eichenholtz , Lucia Buttaro and Renee White-Clark

From The Bobbin Girl to The Breaker Boys / Patricia A. Deleo

Horton, Highlander, and the Habituation of Democracy / J. Cynthia McDermott and Peter Hoffmann-Kipp

SEIU Local 32 BJ’s Youth Brigade / Stuart Eimer and Max Mishler

Every Labor Leader’s Second Favorite Topic: / Fred Glass

Grassroots Organizing and Teacher Education / Mary E. Finn

Where do we go from here? / Adrienne Andi Sosin

Contributor Profiles and Contacts / Rob Linné , Leigh Benin and Adrienne Sosin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-8790-720-6

OCLC:

770520636

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789087907204 DOI