Teaching for social justice : a Democracy and education reader

388 Pages·1998·14.024 MB·English

by  Jean Ann Hunt, Therese Quinn, William Ayers

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TEACHING
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SOCIAL
JUSTICE
A Democracy and Education Reader
EDITED BY
WILLIAM AYERS,
JEAN ANN HUNT,
AND THERESE QUINN
THE NEW PRESS NEW YORK
TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS NEW YORK
© 1998 by Democracy and Education.
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form,
without written permission from the publisher.
The publisher is grateful to reprint the following copyrighted material: From Black Teachers
on Teachingby Michele Foster. Copyright © 1997. Used by permission of The New Press.
From Fires In The Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith. Copyright © 1993 by Anna Deavere
Smith. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing
Group, Inc. “Writing the Word and the World” by Linda Christensen. Reprinted with
permission from Rethinking Schools \o\. 3, No. 1, Rethinking Schools, 1001 E. Keefe Ave.,
Milwaukee, WT 53212, http://www.rethinkingschools.org; 800-669-4192. Reddy, Maureen T.,
Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture. Copyright 1994 by Maureen T. Reddy.
Reprinted by permission of Rutgers University Press. Bill Bigelow. Reprinted with permission
from Rethinking Schools, Vol. 11, No. 4, Rethinking Schools, 1001 E. Keefe Ave., Milwaukee,
WI 53212; http://www.rethinkingschools. org; 800-669-4192.
ISBN 1-56584-420-3
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To the fighting poet spirits of Paulo Freire,
Haywood Burns, and Allen Ginsberg—
fallen teachers who combined fire with grace
as they danced into battle—we dedicate this book.
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Acknowledgments
W
ith awe and gratitude, Therese thanks her children,
Mearah and Aza, and her sweetheart, Patricia Guizzetti,
for love and lessons.
Jean Ann wishes to thank her children, Ryann, Keenan, and
Ian for their extraordinary teachings, and her husband David for
his love and support.
Bill thanks Zayd, Malik, and Chesa for their love and inspira¬
tion, and his partner-in-crime for three decades, Bernardine
Dohrn.
This book would never have been completed without the good
humor and spark manifested daily by Lorraine Scott.
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