Talking Back and Looking Forward

Paul C. Gorski; Rosanna M. Salcedo; Julie Landsman

doi:10.5771/9781475824919

Summary

As schools grow more and more vulnerable to the whims of profiteers and, as a result, become less and less a sacred public space of learning and justice, the voices of everyday educators and students are increasingly marginalized. This is the tyranny of neoliberal school reform: silence the people who know education, the people committed to equity and justice, and elevate the voices and desires of the privileged few whose knowledge of education is peripheral and profit-driven. Talking Back and Moving Forward: An Education Revolution in Poetry and Prose is a collective response to this tyranny, a collecting rallying cry for reclaiming our schools. It is a chorus of voices from teachers, educators, and educational justice advocates who refuse to be silenced—who are standing up and responding to the imposition of damaging school reform initiatives. Unconfined by the conventions of the traditional scholarly voice, the contributors use poetry, memoir, short stories, and photography, choosing the expressions that most effectively capture their experiences and their demands for educational and social justice.

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Copyright year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-2489-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-2491-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 198
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword: Voices for Diversity and Social Justice No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Chapter One: Regrouping the Children No access
2. Chapter Two: Quick Spring No access
3. Chapter Three: Artifacts No access
4. Chapter Four: out of the mouths of scholars No access
5. Chapter Five: Dots, Lines, Spaces, and Math No access
6. Chapter Six: Taco Night No access
7. Chapter Seven: Reflection Questions for Part One: Troubling Common Sense No access
1. Chapter Eight: EDU Haiku No access
2. Chapter Nine: Standardized No access
3. Chapter Ten: Act V No access
4. Chapter Eleven: a lesson from an elementary principal No access
5. Chapter Twelve: Phoenixes No access
6. Chapter Thirteen: This Thing of Memory No access
7. Chapter Fourteen: Answering the Call No access
8. Chapter Fifteen: The Auspices of Social Justice No access
9. Chapter Sixteen: Reflection Questions for Part Two: Revealing the Cost of Educational Tyranny No access
1. Chapter Seventeen: I Apologize No access
2. Chapter Eighteen: Seeds No access
3. Chapter Nineteen: A Classroom Assignment No access
4. Chapter Twenty: “Where Are You From?” No access
5. Chapter Twenty-one: Felipe No access
6. Chapter Twenty-two: unpredicted storm No access
7. Chapter Twenty-three: Reflection Questions for Part Three: Honoring Liberated Voices No access
1. Chapter Twenty-four: Punk Has Always Been My School No access
2. Chapter Twenty-five: Pickled No access
3. Chapter Twenty-six: They Are Me and I Am Them: A Memoir of a Social Justice Educator No access
4. Chapter Twenty-seven: Look No access
5. Chapter Twenty-eight: Teaching from the Margins No access
6. Chapter Twenty-nine: Peace No access
7. Chapter Thirty: You Gotta Be Ready for Some Serious Truth to Be Spoken No access
8. Chapter Thirty-one: Reflection Questions for Part Four: Teaching against the Grain No access
1. Chapter Thirty-two: Through My Eyes No access
2. Chapter Thirty-three: Playground Futurities No access
3. Chapter Thirty-four: The Richest Country in the World: A Fable No access
4. Chapter Thirty-five: Three Spaces of Exclusion: The 21st-Century High School Integration of That Girl No access
5. Chapter Thirty-six: They Said No access
6. Chapter Thirty-seven: Language as Weapon: Lessons from the Front Lines No access
7. Chapter Thirty-eight: Starfish (A Practical Exorcism) No access
8. Chapter Thirty-nine: All the Ways We Learn No access
9. Chapter Forty: we pull the wool over this rainbow of eyes: the archeology of white people (pts. 1 and 2) No access
10. Chapter Forty-one: Use your words! No access
11. Chapter Forty-two: Privileged and Under No access
12. Chapter Forty-three: The Goddess of Autumn No access
13. Chapter Forty-four: Reflection Questions for Part Five: Speaking Up and Talking Back No access
1. Chapter Forty-five: Connecting with Carlos: Reframing Pain into a Model of Resiliency and Activism No access
2. Chapter Forty-six: Praise No access
3. Chapter Forty-seven: Three Portraits No access
4. Chapter Forty-eight: Willie Alexander No access
5. Chapter Forty-nine: Knowledge as a Function of Freedom No access
6. Chapter Fifty: School Talk No access
7. Chapter Fifty-one: letter to student No access
8. Chapter Fifty-two: Reflection Questions for Part Six: Advocacy and Solidarity No access
About the Contributors No access Pages 191 - 198