Principled resistance : how teachers resolve ethical dilemmas /

Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas brings together senior scholars and activist teachers to explore the concept of resistance as a necessary response to mandates that conflict with their understanding of quality teaching. The book provides vivid examples of the pedagogical,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Santoro, Doris A. (Editor), Cain, Lizabeth (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Teachers > Professional ethics. Teaching > Moral and ethical aspects. Education > Moral and ethical aspects. Education > Philosophy.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Doris A. Santoro and Lizabeth Cain
Part One. Pedagogical principles. 1. The Chicago Teachers Union's rejection of the common core: a case history of teacher resistance / Michelle Strater Gunderson
2. Principled resistance to system mandates among early-career teachers / Clive Beck, Clare Kosnik, Judy Caulfield, and Yiola Cleovoulou
3. Resisting no-excuses culture as a black male teacher: valuing critical thinking and relationships over compliance / Randy R. Miller, Sr.
4. Working the system: teacher resistance in a context of compliance / Alisun Thompson and Lucinda Pease-Alvarez
Part Two. Professional principles. 5. The united teachers of New Orleans Strike of 1990 / Emma Long
6. Professional preparation: principled responses to an ethos of privatization in teacher education / Margaret Smith Crocco
7. Building foundations for principled resistance / Tom Meyer, Christine McCartney, and Jacqueline Hesse
8. Teacher resistance: personal or professional? / Jocelyn Weeda
Part Three. Democratic principles. 9. Dedicated, beloved, and dismissed: teachers as public intellectuals in New York City public schools of the 1950s / Lizabeth Cain
10. Staking a claim in Mad River: advancing civil rights for Queer America / Karen Graves and Margaret A. Nash
11. Teaching and leading as a principled act: how Ethel T. Overby built foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1957 / Adah Ward Randolph and Dwan V. Robinson
12. Tweeting to transgress: teachers on Twitter as principled resisters / Jessica Hochman, Doris A. Santoro, and Stephen Houser
13. Navigating dilemmas in a democracy / Lizabeth Cain and Doris A. Santoro.