Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush on Public Education

基本信息出版社:Beacon Press (2012年9月4日)平装:240页正文语种:英语ISBN:0807032956条形码:9780807032954商品重量:567 gASIN:0807032956您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?

商品描述内容简介A collection of empowering stories bringing together the voices of teachers, parents, and educational activists fighting market-driven educational policies

Lost amid the heated debate over educational policies are the stories of the educators, parents, and students who are most affected by policies such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. InEducational Courage, veteran education scholars Nancy Schniedewind and Mara Sapon-Shevin bring together the voices of those who are resisting market-driven initiatives such as high-stakes testing, charter schools, mayoral control, and merit pay. The diverse narrators who write in this volume confront the educational initiatives that undermine teachers’ judgment and knowledge, ignore the different backgrounds of students and parents, and debase the learning process. These voices offer stories of activism, hope, and possibility. Though these stories describe the negative effects of the corporate-driven educational initiatives of the past decade, they are primarily stories of resistance—of educators, parents, and education activists fighting mightily to uphold the ideals of democratic public education. In doing so, they inspire others to do the same.作者简介Nancy Schniedewindteaches in the master’s program in humanistic/multicultural education at the State University of New York-New Paltz, where she specializes in multicultural/social justice education, cooperative learning, and women’s studies. Among her publications areOpen Minds to EqualityandWomen: Images and Realities.

Mara Sapon-Shevinis professor of inclusive education at Syracuse University, where she specializes in and has published widely on issues of social justice education, inclusive schooling, and teacher education reform. Her publications includeBecause We Can Change the WorldandWidening the Circle.