Activist Educators: Breaking Past Limits / Edition 1

by Catherine Marshall, Amy L. Anderson

Overview

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 commitments? Activist Educators offers a view into the big picture of assertive idealistic professionals’ lives by presenting rich qualitative data on the impetus behind educators’ activism and the strategies they used to push limits in fighting for a cause. Chapters follow the stories of educator activists as they take on problems in schools, including sexual harassment, sexism, racism, reproductive rights, and GLBT rights. The research in Activist Educators contributes to an understanding of professional and personal motivations for educators’ activism, ultimately offering a significant contribution to aspiring teachers who need to know that education careers and social justice activist causes need not be mutually exclusive pursuits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415956673
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/11/2008
Series:	Teaching/Learning Social Justice
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Catherine Marshall is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Amy L. Anderson is an Evaluation Specialist with Evaluation, Assessment, and Policy Connections in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

1. Is it Possible to be an Activist Educator?, Catherine Marshall and Amy L. Anderson

2. The Fight of Their Lives: African American Activist Educators, Annice H. Williams

3. Activist Women in Educational Leadership—How Likely?, Susan Walters

4. Approaching Activism in the Bible Belt, Gloria Hines Jones

5. Surprising Ways to be an Activist, Wanda Legrand

6. Is There Choice in Educator Activism?, Amy L. Anderson

7. The Activist Professional, Catherine Marshall

8. Doing Collaborative Research, Amy L. Anderson and Catherine Marshall

Editorial Reviews

Gary Anderson, NYU

Which book are you currently using for this course? I’m using a Teachers College Press Book titled "The Micropolitics of Educational Leadership" but I would use this one instead.

In respnse to the first proposal you sent me I responded with three pages in which I expressed some doubts about the seriousness of the book. I think this was in part because the author sent in the proposal before it was ready for prime time. This version is much more thorough, and most of my concerns have been addressed.

Kathy Farber, Bowling Green State University

My thoughts about the audience have not changed. I think the book could be used in many classes because of the issues it addresses and the discussion of the research method/methodology. I also think that it could be used with undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, many classes with service learning components would be interested in how their students could do campus/community projects around the issues raised.

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