Love Bettina - We Want To Do More Than Survive Abolitionist Teaching And The Pursuit Of Educational Freedom - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories research and historical events an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life's work of teaching and researching in urban schools Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence oppression and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test - taking skills acronyms grit labs and character education which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom not merely reform teachers parents and community leaders must approach education with the imagination determination boldness and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker Bayard Rustin and Fannie Lou Hamer We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
Title: We Want To Do More Than Survive Abolitionist Teaching And The Pursuit Of Educational Freedom
Author(s): Love Bettina
Publisher: Beacon Press
Barcode: 9780807028346
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 2/4/2020
Category: Organization & Management Of Education