Teaching/Learning Social Justice
About the Book Series
The Teaching/Learning Social Justice Series explores issues of social justice—diversity, equality, democracy, and fairness—in classrooms and communities. "Teaching/learning" connotes the essential connections between theory and practice that books in this series seek to illuminate. Central are the stories and lived experiences of people who strive both to critically analyze and challenge oppressive relationships and institutions, and to imagine and create more just and inclusive alternatives.
Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims
1st Edition
Edited
By Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, Kayhan Irani
May 19, 2008
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, ...
Revealing the Invisible: Confronting Passive Racism in Teacher Education
1st Edition
By Sherry Marx
September 26, 2006
This book examines and confronts the passive and often unconscious racism of white teacher education students, offering a critical tool in the effort to make education more equitable. Sherry Marx provides a consciousness-raising account of how white teachers must come to recognize their own ...
Elusive Justice: Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice
1st Edition
By Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
September 21, 2006
Elusive Justice addresses how educators think about and act upon, differences in schools - be they based on race, gender, class, or disability - and how discourse and practice about such differences are intimately bound up with educational justice. Rather than skip over contentious or uncomfortable...