G. Denti / A. Whang Rattling Chains

Exploring Social Justice in Education
2012
ISBN: 978-94-6209-107-8
Verlag: Sense Publishers
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 89, 126 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Transgressions

Rattling Chains: Exploring Social Justice in Education, is the first book to provide an opportunity to intentionally and deeply grapple with the insights, perceptions, and provocations offered by a rich array of prominent and influential voices in the field of education. The first part of the title, Rattling Chains, signifies the importance of keeping the issue of social justice reverberating in the minds of readers, while also working to unchain thinking from entrenched beliefs and unchallenged assumptions. More specifically, this collection of essays “shakes and rattles” by providing a variety of vantage points from which to wallow in the complex, tangled, and simultaneously revered and contested notion of social justice. It is hoped that mucking around in the thinking, perspectives, and actions of a variety of educational scholars challenges entrenched beliefs while unearthing provocative insights. Exploring issues of social justice from various standpoints is intended to lead to a more complex understanding of justice that is social, as well as its possibilities, potency, and resultant tensions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

G. Denti, Louis

A. Whang, Patricia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Preface; Section 1: Introduction. Refusing the Bliss, Embracing the Hurt, and Rocking the Boat; Working to Awaken: Educators and Critical Consciousness; Working to Awaken: Seeing the Need for Multicultural Education; Working to Awaken: Implications for Teaching from a Social Perspective; Working to Awaken: High Road to Action or Low Road to Conscience Salving; Working to Awaken: Social Justice and Vocational Education; Working to Awaken: Does “Doing Good” Equal Social Justice?; Section 2: Introduction. The Personal Is Political; Cultivating Compassion: Lessons Learned from Society and Culture; Cultivating Compassion: Lessons Learned from Classrooms to Educational Researchers; Cultivating Compassion: Lessons Learned from Community and Family; Cultivating Compassion: Teaching Our Children to Think and Act for Social Justice; Cultivating Compassion: Lessons Learned from Indivuduals with Significant Intellectual Disabilities; Section 3: Introduction. The Ties That Bind; Kindness Is Society: The Plight and Promise of Social Justice in Public Education; Kindness Is Society: The Individual and Collective Essence of Social Justice; Kindness Is Society: Participatory Social Justice for All; Kindness Is Society: Dropping out and the Veil of Social Justice; Kindness Is Society: Charter Schools, Democracy, and Social Justice.