Civic literacy in schools and communities : teaching and organizing for a revitalized democracy /
Because many of our schools fail to address the health and well-being of both students and their communities, teachers and teacher educators are in need of a revised vision for teaching and schooling, one that is committed to civic and community engagement where we see school and community building...
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Kevin K. Kumashiro
- The role of teachers and the purpose of schools
- What's my job, again?
- Teaching matters : embracing different ways of knowing, being, seeing, and doing centering civic and community engagement : the promise of democratic participation in schools and communities : key strategies and ideas for doing school differently
- Building a relational culture : the power of relational pedagogy for teacher engagement in schools and communities
- Life in schools : educating teachers
- Collective possibilities : envisioning healthy and sustainable schools and communities
- Relating is relational : how to rebuild institutions and communities by building better relationships
- Education and Inequality : why schools haven't solved our social problems
- Marching toward the light : working across social boundaries
- Making the road by walking : accountability on Chicago's South Side
- Rebuilding the school : community approaches to school improvement
- Institutional resistance : different views of accountability
- Accountability reconsidered : students and teachers acting together
- Community power : a look back
- Accountability to community : learning through action
- Changing social conditions : final reflections
- Models for change : community as curriculum and the promise of democratic schooling
- Why we need grassroots school reform
- Grassroots curriculum : the power of place
- Indigenous leaders : community organizing and teacher organizers
- Community as campus : community action councils and the shaping of a school
- Democratic Schooling : the Nova project
- Making citizen teachers : educational leaders for justice and democracy
- Rethinking teacher education
- Citizen teachers and the democratic potential of schools
- Surviving the war : what will it take to change our schools and communities?
- Citizen teachers and the challenges to teaching differently
- Teaching on the boundary
- Possible futures : democratic practices and community engagement in schools
- The limits of Alinsky and the promise of grassroots organization.