We Don't Need Another Hero Struggle, Hope and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling

Name: We Don't Need Another Hero Struggle, Hope and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling
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ISBN: 9780807753507

ISBN-10: 0807753505

ISBN-13: 9780807753507

Edition: 2013

Authors: Gregory Michie, Alan Lockwood

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In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just "achieve." Drawing on his experiences over the past two decades as a classroom teacher, community volunteer, researcher, and teacher educator in Chicago's public schools, Michie offers compelling accounts of teaching and learning in urban America. Mindful of the complex realities educators face, he portrays urban schools as they really are: sites of struggle, hope, and possibility. At a time when others relentlessly…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 10/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Teaching


Teaching in the Undertow: Resisting the Pull of Schooling-as-Usual


All Together Now


We Don't Need Another Hero


From the Trading Floor to the Classroom: Charlie's Story


Seeing, Hearing, and Talking Race: Lessons for White Teachers from Teachers of Color


Fire and Water: Reflections on Teaching in the City


Youth on the Margins


Juan at 16


Some Kind of Justice


Ground Zero


A Real Alternative: Tragedy and Hope on Chicago's South Side


At the Edges of a Dream


The Bigger Picture


Elephants in the Room


Another Path Is Possible


The Trouble with "Innovation" in Schools


Race to the Top of What?: In Search of the Democratic Ideal in Education


Notes


References


Index


About the Author