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Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader (Teaching for Social Justice Series)
Controversies in the Classroom A Radical Teacher Reader - Teaching for Social Justice Series Author:Joseph B. Entin, Robert C. Rosen, Leonard Vogt Controversies in the Classroom features the most important and exciting writing from the past 15 years of Radical Teacher magazine. This is a must read for all teachers who are committed to creative pedagogy and social justice. — Forward by Deborah Meier — Part I: Teaching About War — 1. Whose Terrorism? by Bill Bigelow — 2. Can Vietnam Awaken Us Ag... more »ain? Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War by H. Bruce Franklin
3. Dialogues About 9/11, the Media and Race: Lessons from a Secondary Classroom by Rita Verma
Part II: Teaching About Globalization
4. What is Globalization? by Arthur MacEwan
5. Sweating the Small Stuff: Mickie, Michael and the Global Sweat Shop by Maria Sweeney and Marjorie Feld
6. Planting Seeds of Solidarity by Bob Peterson
Part III: Teaching about Race, Ethnicity and Language
7. Revisiting the Struggle for Integration by Michelle Fine and Bernadette Anand
8. A High School Class on Race and Racism by Lawrence Blum
9. Naming and Interrogating Our English-Only Legacy by Lilia I. Bartolome and Pepi Leistyna
Part IV: Teaching About Gender and Sexualities
10. Teaching and Learning Through Desire, Crisis and Difference: Perverted Reflections on Anti-Oppressive Education by Kevin K. Kumashiro
11. Bridging Multicultural Education: Bringing Sexual Orientation Into the Children's and Young Adult Literature Classrooms by Patti Capel Swartz
12. Nuns, Midwives and Witches: Women's Studies in the Elementary Classroom by Sarah Napier
Part V: Threats to Public Education: Testing, Tracking and Privatization
13. Leaving Public Education Behind by Stan Karp
14. ''I Plan to Be Somebody:'' The Absence of Tracking is a Deeply Radical Idea by Nancy Barnes
15. After Katrina: Tales from a Chartered School Classroom by Nicole Polier
Epilogue: Paolo Freire -- On Hope by Kathleen Weiler« less