Teaching to Change the World

by Jeannie Oakes, Lauren Anderson, Martin Lipton

This is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, multicultural introduction to education and teaching and the challenges and opportunities they present. Together, the four authors bring a rich blend of theory and practical application to this groundbreaking text. Jeannie Oakes is a leading education researcher and former director of the UCLA teacher education program. Martin Lipton is an education writer and consultant and has taught in public schools for 31 years. Lauren Anderson and Jamy Stillman are former public school teachers, now working as teacher educators. This unique, comprehensive foundational text considers the values and politics that pervade the U.S. education system, explains the roots of conventional thinking about schooling and teaching, asks critical questions about how issues of power and privilege have shaped and continue to shape educational opportunity, and presents powerful examples of real teachers working for equity and justice. Taking the position that a hopeful, democratic future depends on ensuring that all students learn, the text pays particular attention to inequalities associated with race, social class, language, gender, and other social categories and explores teachers role in addressing them. The text provides a research-based and practical treatment of essential topics, and it situates those topics in relation to democratic values; issues of diversity; and cognitive, sociocultural, and constructivist perspectives on learning. The text shows how knowledge of education foundations and history can help teachers understand the organization of today s schools, the content of contemporary curriculum, and the methods of modern teaching. It likewise shows how teachers can use such knowledge when thinking about and responding to headline issues like charter schools, vouchers, standards, testing, and bilingual education, to name just a few. Central to this text is a belief that schools can and must be places of extraordinary educational quality and institutions in the service of social justice. Thus, the authors address head-on tensions between principles of democratic schooling and competition for always-scarce high-quality opportunities. Woven through the text are the voices of a diverse group of teachers, who share their analyses and personal anecdotes concerning what teaching to change the world means and involves. Click Here for Book Website Pedagogical Features: Digging Deeper sections referenced at the end of each chapter and featured online include supplementary readings and resources from scholars and practitioners who are addressing issues raised in the text. Instructor s Manual offers insights about how to teach course content in ways that are consistent with cognitive and sociocultural learning theories, culturally diverse pedagogy, and authentic assessment. New to this Edition: "

Genres: Education, Teaching, Grad School, School

452 pages, Paperback

First published September 18, 1998

Reviews

[Krista · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good. Reading for grad school and it has great information to support the need for culturally responsive teaching. The chapters are very long and get dry in places. I wouldn't read it for fun but as a text book, it's a good one

[Anney · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book in a nutshell? There are two kinds of teachers. Traditionalist and progressive. They fight. A lot. They refuse to compromise on how to run classrooms and schools. They are responsible for everything that's wrong with the world.

[Sarah Remsing · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are so many important ideas in this book that are fundamental to addressing problems in education. There are so many underlying things that effect education and students that we have to understand before we can address teaching, and this book understands that. It asks us to reflect on both our own thinking on these topics and what the common thought has been throughout the history of education. It's an incredibly complex subject with more factors than can possibly be solved by one person, and while this book recognizes education will never be perfect it points out ways we can try to make it better.

[maur · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had to read for my education class… feels a little repetitive but has the right idea

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe I should re-read this in the near future...

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ch1, "Wrestling with History and Tradition"

[Mills College Library]

371.01097 O116t 2013

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read for my credential/masters program. A little repetitive but generally inspiring to head into the classroom.

[Mills College Library]

371.01097 O116t 2018