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• catalog abstract ""This text invites teachers and would-be teachers to consider becoming critical educators - professionals dedicated to creating schools that genuinely provide equal opportunity for all children. Assuming little or no background in critical theory, chapters address essential questions to help readers develop the understanding and resolve necessary to become change agents."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12646098.
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description ""This text invites teachers and would-be teachers to consider becoming critical educators - professionals dedicated to creating schools that genuinely provide equal opportunity for all children. Assuming little or no background in critical theory, chapters address essential questions to help readers develop the understanding and resolve necessary to become change agents."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "I: Beginning the journey: thinking about our thinking -- 1. Starting points: assumptions and alternatives -- Why theory and philosophy matter: from the abstract to the practical -- Developing a personal stance -- Historical possibilities: traditional goals -- An alternative agenda: critical goals -- The why and how of praxis -- 2. Understanding our own thinking: developing critical consciousness -- Issues of race -- Issues of gender and sexual orientation -- The complexity of cultural conditioning -- 3. Expanding our thinking: Learning about "other people's children" -- Who are America's schoolchildren? -- Poverty, race, and schoolchildren -- Other people's children: educational history and legacies -- Other people's children: current realities -- II: Considering destinations: truth, consequences, and the critical vision -- 4. In the interest of everyone but kids: the politics of contemporary educational reform -- Themes in national political rhetoric -- Theme 1: Education as workforce preparation -- Theme 2: Education is failing -- Rhetoric and realities -- Why produce a "manufactured crisis"? -- Corporations on the crisis bandwagon -- Corporation in the schoolhouse -- Staging for twenty-first-century reforms -- 5. Consequences of contemporary educational reform: winners and losers -- Standards and high-stakes testing -- The winners -- The losers -- Moves toward privatization -- The winners -- the losers -- 6. Critical alternatives for schools and teachers -- Critical alternatives: redefining democracy and democratic goals -- Critical alternatives: schooling for participative citizenship -- Education as critical inquiry for social change -- Education in service to the many -- Critical alternatives: teachers pursuing social justice -- Teachers who understand social power arrangements -- Teachers who respect the other -- Teachers as public intellectuals -- Teachers as risk-takers -- Parting thoughts -- Information and allies for the critical educator.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-166) and index.".
• catalog extent "xx, 168 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Becoming a critical educator.".
• catalog identifier "0820461490 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Becoming a critical educator.".
• catalog isPartOf "Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 224.".
• catalog isPartOf "Counterpoints ; vol. 224".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
• catalog relation "Becoming a critical educator.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "370.11/5 21".
• catalog subject "Critical pedagogy United States.".
• catalog subject "Education Political aspects United States.".
• catalog subject "LC196.5.U6 H56 2003".
• catalog tableOfContents "I: Beginning the journey: thinking about our thinking -- 1. Starting points: assumptions and alternatives -- Why theory and philosophy matter: from the abstract to the practical -- Developing a personal stance -- Historical possibilities: traditional goals -- An alternative agenda: critical goals -- The why and how of praxis -- 2. Understanding our own thinking: developing critical consciousness -- Issues of race -- Issues of gender and sexual orientation -- The complexity of cultural conditioning -- 3. Expanding our thinking: Learning about "other people's children" -- Who are America's schoolchildren? -- Poverty, race, and schoolchildren -- Other people's children: educational history and legacies -- Other people's children: current realities -- II: Considering destinations: truth, consequences, and the critical vision -- 4. In the interest of everyone but kids: the politics of contemporary educational reform -- Themes in national political rhetoric -- Theme 1: Education as workforce preparation -- Theme 2: Education is failing -- Rhetoric and realities -- Why produce a "manufactured crisis"? -- Corporations on the crisis bandwagon -- Corporation in the schoolhouse -- Staging for twenty-first-century reforms -- 5. Consequences of contemporary educational reform: winners and losers -- Standards and high-stakes testing -- The winners -- The losers -- Moves toward privatization -- The winners -- the losers -- 6. Critical alternatives for schools and teachers -- Critical alternatives: redefining democracy and democratic goals -- Critical alternatives: schooling for participative citizenship -- Education as critical inquiry for social change -- Education in service to the many -- Critical alternatives: teachers pursuing social justice -- Teachers who understand social power arrangements -- Teachers who respect the other -- Teachers as public intellectuals -- Teachers as risk-takers -- Parting thoughts -- Information and allies for the critical educator.".
• catalog title "Becoming a critical educator : defining a classroom identity, designing a critical pedagogy.".
• catalog type "text".