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Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education Kevin K. Kumashiro

Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education By Kevin K. Kumashiro

Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education by Kevin K. Kumashiro


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This book spotlights six themes or lenses for understanding and analyzing education and its relation to oppression and anti-oppressive transformation. It brings together multiple perspectives on anti-oppressive education from various contexts, including K-12 schools, teacher education programs, postsecondary institutions, and community-based organizations.

Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education Summary

Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations (Second Edition) by Kevin K. Kumashiro

This book spotlights six themes or lenses for understanding and analyzing education and its relation to oppression and anti-oppressive transformation. It brings together multiple perspectives on anti-oppressive education from various contexts, including K-12 schools, teacher education programs, postsecondary institutions, and community-based organizations. The book provides an array of practical and theoretical resources for educators to explore and innovate ways to confront and dismantle racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and other forms of oppression in education. Significantly, this 2nd edition boasts ten new chapters as well as new or considerably revised Conversations for each of the six Parts. The chapters provide readers with diverse perspectives for considering anti-oppressive education from a range of content areas in K-12, postsecondary, and community contexts; student and educator populations; social differences; activities; and research methodology. In addition, this new edition significantly amplifies the perspectives and experiences of youth, including those from Southeast Asian, South Asian, and African American communities.

About Kevin K. Kumashiro

Bic Ngo is an Associate Professor of Culture and Teaching in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Unresolved Identities: Discourse, Ambivalence and Urban Immigrant Identities (SUNY) and the recent recipient of the Scholars Award from the William T. Grant Foundation and the Early Career Award from the Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, American Education Research Association.
Kevin Kumashiro is dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was formerly professor of Asian American Studies and chair of the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also served as primary investigator and director of a $4 million U.S. Department of Education grant-funded initiative to support Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and English-language learners in higher education. He is the award-winning author or editor of nine books on education and social justice, including Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture. He is the founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, and the president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.

Table of Contents

Contents: Joe Lewis/Letitia Basford: Paying with Their Lives: One Family and the School-to-Prison Pipeline - Jane L. Lehr: Why Social Justice Educators Must Engage Science in All of Our Classrooms - Linda Fernsten: A Teaching Story: Academic Writing and the Silence of Oppression - Letitia Basford/Linda Fernsten/Jane L. Lehr/Joe Lewis: Conversation: Contesting Authoritative Discourses in Education - Erin Dyke/Jana LoBello: Disposable Young Mothers: Desettling Developmentalism,Unmasking Waste and Value Production in Education - Candace J. Chow: Raced Curriculum: Asian American College Students' Lives - Sarah E. Hansen: A Teaching Story: Unsilencing Laughter in Serious Spaces - Candace J. Chow/Erin Dyke/Sarah E. Hansen/Jana LoBello: Conversation: Unearthing Hidden Curricula: Standards, Socialization, and Silences - Jill Ewing Flynn: Studying Media Representations to Foster Critical Literacy - Mary Beth Hines: Ways of Reading, Ways of Seeing: Social Justice Inquiry in the Literature Classroom - Jocelyn Anne Glazier: A Teaching Story: Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy and Curriculum in Secondary English Methods: Focusing on Critical Literacy - Anne Glazier/Mary Beth Hines: Conversation: Learning to Read Critically, by Jill Ewing Flynn, Jocelyn - Ann Mogush Mason: Disrupting Neutrality and the New Racism in Teacher Education - Mary Curran: Putting Anti-Oppressive Language Teacher Education in Practice - Ann Berlak/Sekani Moyenda: A Teaching Story: Reflections upon Racism and Schooling from Kindergarten to College - Ann Berlak/Mary Curran/Ann Mogush Mason/Sekani Moyenda: Conversation: Addressing Resistance: Uncertainties in Learning to Teach - Sumun Lakshmi Pendakur: Going Against the Grain: Higher Education Practitioners Countering Neoliberalism and Post-Racial Ideology - Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy: Khmerican and Lao American Youths' Contested Ethnic Identities: Perspectives That Move Teachers Beyond Race - Mary E. Lee-Nichols: A Teaching Story: It Begins with Muffins for Moms: How Racist Practices Casually Creep into Classrooms - Mary E. Lee-Nichols/Sumun Lakshmi Pendakur/Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy: Conversation: Complicating Race and Racism in Theory and Practice - George Lipsitz: Teaching in a Time of War and the Metaphor of Two Worlds - Brian D. Lozenski/Gevonee EuGene Ford: From Individualism to Interconnectedness: Exploring the Transformational Potential of a Community-Generated Methodology - George Lipsitz/Brian D. Lozenski/Gevonee EuGene Ford: Conversation: Situating Anti-Oppressive Education in Our Times.

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NLS9781433126109
9781433126109
1433126109
Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations (Second Edition) by Kevin K. Kumashiro
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Paperback
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
2014-10-30
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