Educating for insurgency : the roles of young people in schools of poverty /
Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control, where the policing of behavior trumps the expanding of minds. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young people fashion an insurgency. That means, at the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland :
AK Press,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control, where the policing of behavior trumps the expanding of minds. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young people fashion an insurgency. That means, at the very least, seeing each student's rebellion not as violation, but as communication. Jay Gillen writes with passion and compassion about the daily lives of poor students trapped in institutions that dismiss and degrade them. In the spirit of Paulo Freire, and using the historical models of slave rebellions and Civil Rights struggles as guides, Gillen explains what sort of insurgency is needed and how to create it: the tools and techniques required to build social, intellectual, and political power. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781849352000 1849352003 |