Overview
- This is an in-the-moment read that invites the
- reader to hear and participate in a dialogic encounter with educational leaders
- and how they view the systemic problem of identity and invisibility in the
- contemporary United States
- Through a series of vignettes and portraits this book offers educational leadership courses and teacher preparation programs potential discussion topics for courageous conversations and reactive writing prompts for critical analyses, relating to the dialectics of disenfranchisement/privilege, inequity/wholeness, and violence/peace
- As a text the contributors offer a dialogic presentation of the state of the Union as a product of past and present educational trends that have proliferated the de-democratization of the U.S. and the dehumanizations of people labeled as marginalized citizens
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
Un-American Acts focuses on identity and invisibility of African American and other underrepresented youth in the U.S. society and schooling. Presented are a series of chapters rooted in critical theory, aesthetics, and moral imagination that are intended to serve as prompts for crucial conversations and for engaging in critical reflective pedagogy in educational leadership and educational studies. Chapters center on events that have transpired in Ferguson, Staten Island, South Carolina, and elsewhere in the U.S. as well as on other relevant concerns that have had a profound impact on perceptions of race and identity in our nation’s educational systems.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Un-American Acts
Editors: Charles Lowery, Carolyn Hernandez, Anthony Walker, Cornell Thomas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-328-5
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-328-5Published: 18 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Topics: Education, general