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Does society care about its children? This work aims to offer a provocative and in-depth examination of violence in the lives of children. It uncovers the conditions and social policies that perpetuate violence. It also looks at other forms of violence in families, neighbourhoods, and schools.

In this graphic novel, Branham advocates for art education in school, while also providing a rationale for how art education can play a part in enhancing education curricula in the common core era, and provides a succinct look at art education and its history and function in the American education system in the form of a graphic novel.

After a decade as an education professor, Greg Michie decided to return to his teaching roots. Same As It Never Was chronicles Michie's efforts to navigate the new realities of public schooling while also trying to rediscover himself as a teacher.

This celebrated narrative captured the attention of educators and the media by depicting the journey of one teacher and his students juxtaposed against the bureaucracy of Chicago's public education system. This second edition examines how school reform continues to fail students in urban contexts and offers compelling updates on students.

Offers a necessary intervention to help progressive educators and advocates take back public education. This book highlights how the broader Left are often talking about the "problem" in ways that were framed by forces counter to the goals of democracy and justice, and in so doing, advancing "solutions" that cannot help but be counterproductive.

Employing a critical storytelling framework, respected scholars share the teaching practices of influential teachers that they learned from. Each storyteller identifies key concepts and principles that explain why the selected teacher was so memorably effective.

These essays follow a veteran teacher educator and school reform activist as he tries to understand an enterprise he calls ""mysterious and immeasurable."" Focusing on his experiences, Bill Ayers argues, reflects, and searches for ways to break through the routine and the ordinary to see teaching as the important and extraordinary work it is.

Focuses on the personal experience of teachers and the practical realities of teaching, revealing how our nation's educators grapple with issues of race, class, gender in their daily lives. This title is suitable for progressive thinkers and those interested in how social justice theories translate to the real world.

In his latest book, leading educator and author Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current debate on educational reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher educators masks the real, systemic problems. He demonstrates how current trends are creating overwhelming obstacles to achieving an equitable education for all children.

Based on the author's experiences with incarcerated girls participating in `Girl Time', a programme created by a theatre company that conducts playwriting and performance workshops in youth detention centres.

Presents a new kind of interdisciplinary pedagogy that brings together antipoverty grassroots activism and relevant social theories about poverty. This unique book combines the oral history of a renowned anti-poverty organiser with accessible introductions to relevant social theories, case studies, in-class student debates, and pedagogical reflections.

The Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher initiative involves collaboration between community-based organizations and colleges of education in preparing community members to teach for change in their local schools. Incorporating stories and the perspectives of foremost teacher educators, students, and community leaders, this book offers an alternative framework for teacher education that will provide urban students with the education they deserve. It will also provide adult community members with an example of higher education that can lead to a rewarding professional career. --from publisher description