Teaching/Learning Social Justice

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1. Understanding White Privilege

   Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race, 2nd Edition

   By Frances Kendall

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   Knowingly and unknowingly we all grapple with race every day. Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life. It offers an unflinching look at how ignorance can perpetuate privilege, and offers practical and...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
2. Practice What You Teach

   Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets

   By Bree Picower

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   Many teachers enter the profession with a desire to "make a difference." But given who most teachers are, where they come from, and what pressure they feel to comply with existing school policies, how can they take up this charge? Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Actions Speak Louder than Words

   Community Activism as Curriculum

   By Celia Oyler

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   How do educators engage students in community action projects without telling them what to think, how to think, or what to do? Is it possible to integrate social justice organizing into the curriculum without imposing one’s political views on students? In Actions Speak Louder than Words, longtime...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Promoting Diversity and Social Justice

   Educating People from Privileged Groups, Second Edition

   By Diane J. Goodman

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   Promoting Diversity and Social Justice provides theories, perspectives, and strategies that are useful for working with adults from privileged groups—those who are in a more powerful position in any given type of oppression. The thoroughly revised edition of this accessible and practical guide...

   Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge
5. Storytelling for Social Justice

   Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching

   By Lee Anne Bell

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   Through accessible language and candid discussions, Storytelling for Social Justice explores the stories we tell ourselves and each other about race and racism in our society. Making sense of the racial constructions expressed through the language and images we encounter every day, this book...

   Published March 16th 2010 by Routledge
6. History as Art, Art as History

   Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education

   By Dipti Desai, Jessica Hamlin, Rachel Mattson

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with...

   Published October 4th 2009 by Routledge
7. Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education

   Transformative Standards

   Edited by Julie Andrzejewski, Marta Baltodano, Linda Symcox

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   The concept of "standards" seems antithetical to the ways critical educators are dedicated to teaching, but what would "standards" look like if they were generated from social justice perspectives and through collaborative and inclusive processes? Such is the central question posed by the...

   Published March 31st 2009 by Routledge
8. Interpreting National History

   Race, Identity, and Pedagogy in Classrooms and Communities

   By Terrie Epstein

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   How do students’ racial identities work with and against teachers’ pedagogies to shape their understandings of history and contemporary society? Based on a long-term ethnographic study, Interpreting National History examines the startling differences in black and white students' interpretations of...

   Published September 18th 2008 by Routledge
9. Activist Educators

   Breaking Past Limits

   Edited by Catherine Marshall, Amy L. Anderson

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   Taking an active stand in today's conservative educational climate can be a risky business. Given both the expectations of the profession and the challenge of participation in social justice activism, how do educator activists manage the often competing demands of professional and activist...

   Published August 10th 2008 by Routledge
10. Telling Stories to Change the World

    Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims

    Edited by Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, Kayhan Irani

    Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

    Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from locations across the globe—including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa,...

    Published May 18th 2008 by Routledge