Future of Our Schools Teachers Unions and Social Justice

Name: Future of Our Schools Teachers Unions and Social Justice
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ISBN: 9781608462629

ISBN-10: 1608462625

ISBN-13: 9781608462629

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Authors: Lois Weiner

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InReversing the Assault on Public Education, Lois Weiner explains why teachers who care passionately about teaching and social justice need to unite the energy for teaching to efforts to self-govern and transform teacher unions. Drawing on research and her experience as a public school teacher and union activist, she explains how to create the teachers unions public education desperately needs.Lois Weineris a professor at New Jersey City University and has been a life-long teacher union activist who has served as an officer of three different union locals. She is the author ofThe Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistanc e.

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 11/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.13" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English







Understanding the Assault on Public Education



Protecting the Heart of Teaching



Building Social Movement Teachers Unions



The New Landscape



Teacher Unionism 101






Introduction



"Cracks in Shanker's Empire"



"Democratizing the Schools"



"Class, Gender, and Race in the Newark Teacher Strikes"



"Neoliberalism, Teacher Unionism, and the Future of Public Education"



"The (People's) Summit of the Americas"



"Teacher Unionism Reborn"


Notes


Selected References


Index