Power, Teaching, and Teacher Education: Confronting Injustice with Critical Research and Action

by Christine Sleeter

This collection of essays frames the work of teachers and teacher educators within a struggle over what it means to educate a highly diverse public. Visions for public education, as shaped by progressivism and the Civil Rights movements, have emphasized preparation of all children and youth for participation in a diverse democracy. This vision is being challenged by neoliberalism, which frames education as a commodity to be acquired for individual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433121433
• ISBN13: 9781433121432
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"