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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Charest, Brian, 1973- (Author)
Other Authors: Kumashiro, Kevin K., 1970- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2021]
Subjects:
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.