Teaching the Taboo Courage and Imagination in the Classroom

Name: Teaching the Taboo Courage and Imagination in the Classroom
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ISBN: 9780807751527

ISBN-10: 0807751529

ISBN-13: 9780807751527

Edition: 2011

Authors: William Ayers, Rick Ayers

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Education at its best is about opening doors, opening minds, and inviting students to become powerful choice-makers as they forge their own pathways into a wider world. While many teachers long for teaching to be something transcendent and powerful, they all too often find themselves teaching obedience and conformity. This dynamic book—by two renowned educators—is filled with classroom stories of everyday teachers grappling with many of today’s hotly debated issues. These stories of courage and resistance will help today’s teachers confront the cynicism and demoralization that has gripped the profession in this age of standardization and testing. It will help teachers to teach initiative,…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.660

William Ayers is Professor at the College of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago. His recent publications include Race Course Against White Supremacy (with Bernadine Dohrn) and the Handbook of Social Justice in Education (with Therese Quinn and David Stovall).



Foreword



Prelude


Introduction



Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery



Make Conflict Visible: The Darkness in Our Own Hearts



Into the Woods



Tell No Lies: Science and Math Matters



Banned, Suppressed, Bound, and Gagged



Queer the Common Sense



Teaching Lives



Release the Wisdom in Room: Language and Power



Voyage to the Unknow


Coda


Endnotes


References


About the Authors