1st Edition

Radical Educators Rearticulating Education and Social Change Teacher Agency and Resistance, Early 20th Century to the Present

Edited By Jennifer Gale de Saxe, Tina Y. Gourd Copyright 2019
    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is a collection of six case studies of teacher agency in action, centering on voices of educators who engaged in activist work throughout the history of education in the US. Through a lens of teacher agency and resistance, chapter authors explore the stories of individual educators to determine how particular historical and cultural contexts contributed to these educators’ activist efforts. By analyzing specific modes and methods of resistance found within diverse communities throughout the last century of US education, this book helps to identify and place into theoretical and historical context an underemphasized narrative of professional teacher-activists within American education.

    Foreword



    Ken Zeichner





    Introduction



    Tina Y. Gourd and Jennifer de Saxe





    Part I: Teacher Agency and Resistance, Theorized





    Chapter 1: Teachers, Power, and Agency



    Tina Y. Gourd





    Chapter 2: Resistance as a Methodology: A Counterhegemonic Movement for Praxis in Education



    Jennifer de Saxe





    Part II: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies of Teacher Agency and Resistance In Action





    Chapter 3: "There’s A Lot To Know, And We’ll Learn It Together": Emancipatory Teaching and Learning at Harlem Preparatory School, 1967-1974



    Barry M. Goldenberg





    Chapter 4: The Formidable: Chinatown Enclave Educators’ Agency and Resistance



    Sumer Seiki





    Chapter 5: Agency within Constraints: The Professional Preparation and Work of Southern Black Educators, 1945-1970



    Donna Jordan-Taylor





    Chapter 6: Reaching Beyond the Classroom: Women Teachers in the Early 20th Century



    Kathryn Nicholas





    Chapter 7: Hijacks and Hijinks on the US History Review Committee



    Laura K. Muñoz and Julio Noboa





    Chapter 8: Community Teaching as Agency



    Kate Napolitan





    Compilation of Chapter Discussion Questions from Part II





    Notes on Contributors

    Biography

    Jennifer Gale de Saxe is a lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.





    Tina Y. Gourd is an instructor in the College of Education, University of Washington, USA.