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Against Common Sense : Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 online resource (187 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317657705
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 379.2/60973
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements to the 10th Anniversary Third Edition -- About the Author -- Introduction to the 10th Anniversary Third Edition -- Sampling of New Resources -- Part I. Movements Toward Anti-Oppressive Teacher Education -- Chapter 1. Three Teacher Images in U.S. Teacher Education Programs -- Teacher as Learned Practitioner -- Teacher as Researcher -- Teacher as Professional -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 2. Preparing Teachers for Crisis: A Sample Lesson -- What It Means to Be a Student -- What It Means to Learn -- Learning through Crisis -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 3. Preparing Teachers for Uncertainty: A Sample Lesson -- Unintentional Ways of Teaching -- Teaching with Uncertainty -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 4. Preparing Teachers for Healing: A Conversation with Buddhism -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 5. Preparing Teachers for Activism: A Reflection on Things Queer -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Part II. Preparing Anti-Oppressive Teachers in Six Disciplines -- Chapter 6. Examples from Social Studies -- "Second World War" and Silences in the Curriculum -- "War on Terrorism" and Silences in the Media -- Looking Beyond: "Why Did We Do This?" -- Teacher Response to Chapter 6: Negotiating State Standards to Create Anti-Oppressive Spaces in the Classroom -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 7. Examples from English Literature -- Reading about Racism -- Reading against Racism -- Looking Beyond: Lenses of Teachers.
Teacher Response to Chapter 7: Connecting Mandated Literature to Students' Lives -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 8. Examples from Music -- Christianity, Colonialism, and a Song from Hawai'i -- Looking Beyond: Risks and Emotions -- Teacher Response to Chapter 8: Creative Voices -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 9. Examples from "Foreign" Languages -- Cultural Context and the Problem of Difference -- Looking Beyond: Cultural Norms in Schools -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Teacher Response to Chapter 9: Found in Translation: Zora Neale Hurston and the Crisis of "Formal/ Standard/Academic" English -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 10. Examples from the Natural Sciences -- Gendered Stories -- Looking Beyond: Stories about Science -- Teacher Response to Chapter 10: A Moving Imagination: Teacher and Student Agency in Public Schools -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 11. Examples from Mathematics -- Real-Life Problems, Real Limitations -- Looking Beyond: Institutional Demands -- Teacher Response to Chapter 11: Mathematical Literacy and Imagination in the African Diaspora: Reflections on oppressive pedagogy -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Conclusion: With Hope -- Afterword -- Troubling Knowledge -- References -- Index.
Summary: Celebrating 10 years as a go-to resource for K-12 teachers and teacher educators, this third edition of the bestselling Against Common Sense examines aspects of anti-oppressive teaching and learning in six different subject areas.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements to the 10th Anniversary Third Edition -- About the Author -- Introduction to the 10th Anniversary Third Edition -- Sampling of New Resources -- Part I. Movements Toward Anti-Oppressive Teacher Education -- Chapter 1. Three Teacher Images in U.S. Teacher Education Programs -- Teacher as Learned Practitioner -- Teacher as Researcher -- Teacher as Professional -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 2. Preparing Teachers for Crisis: A Sample Lesson -- What It Means to Be a Student -- What It Means to Learn -- Learning through Crisis -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 3. Preparing Teachers for Uncertainty: A Sample Lesson -- Unintentional Ways of Teaching -- Teaching with Uncertainty -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 4. Preparing Teachers for Healing: A Conversation with Buddhism -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 5. Preparing Teachers for Activism: A Reflection on Things Queer -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Part II. Preparing Anti-Oppressive Teachers in Six Disciplines -- Chapter 6. Examples from Social Studies -- "Second World War" and Silences in the Curriculum -- "War on Terrorism" and Silences in the Media -- Looking Beyond: "Why Did We Do This?" -- Teacher Response to Chapter 6: Negotiating State Standards to Create Anti-Oppressive Spaces in the Classroom -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 7. Examples from English Literature -- Reading about Racism -- Reading against Racism -- Looking Beyond: Lenses of Teachers.

Teacher Response to Chapter 7: Connecting Mandated Literature to Students' Lives -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 8. Examples from Music -- Christianity, Colonialism, and a Song from Hawai'i -- Looking Beyond: Risks and Emotions -- Teacher Response to Chapter 8: Creative Voices -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 9. Examples from "Foreign" Languages -- Cultural Context and the Problem of Difference -- Looking Beyond: Cultural Norms in Schools -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Teacher Response to Chapter 9: Found in Translation: Zora Neale Hurston and the Crisis of "Formal/ Standard/Academic" English -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 10. Examples from the Natural Sciences -- Gendered Stories -- Looking Beyond: Stories about Science -- Teacher Response to Chapter 10: A Moving Imagination: Teacher and Student Agency in Public Schools -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Chapter 11. Examples from Mathematics -- Real-Life Problems, Real Limitations -- Looking Beyond: Institutional Demands -- Teacher Response to Chapter 11: Mathematical Literacy and Imagination in the African Diaspora: Reflections on oppressive pedagogy -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Sampling of New Resources -- Conclusion: With Hope -- Afterword -- Troubling Knowledge -- References -- Index.

Celebrating 10 years as a go-to resource for K-12 teachers and teacher educators, this third edition of the bestselling Against Common Sense examines aspects of anti-oppressive teaching and learning in six different subject areas.

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