Volatile Knowing

Parents, Teachers, and the Censored Story of Accountability in America's Public Schools

Kaia Tollefson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

222 Seiten

2010
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1560-2 (ISBN)

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Volatile Knowing refers to the potential for positive change that can result when parents and teachers talk with each other about the politics and policies of externally defined accountability mandates in education. This text tells the story of twelve teachers and parents who breached the unofficial but deeply inscribed home/school divide to discuss the current accountability-for-uniformity movement that has overtaken the nation's educational agenda at federal, state, and local levels. This kind of volatile knowing offers hope for progressively-minded citizens: that together, parents and teachers can ignite a new, child-centered movement for accountability and creativity in America's public schools.

Volatile Knowing is based on a qualitative case study of a particular group of parents and teachers who studied and discussed information about the accountability movement that is typically censored in mainstream media coverage. The themes that emerged in this study are presented through the lens of Foucault's analysis of the workings of modern power. By making the exercise of hierarchical power visible to readers, it is hoped that Volatile Knowing will prompt an expanding conversation and ongoing study of the ways in which the people's definitional authority in their schools and society can be both lost and found.

Kaia Tollefson is assistant professor of education at California State University Channel Islands.

Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Accountability in the Schools: What the People Don't Know
Chapter 4 Challenging the Virtually Unchallenged: A Personal Experience
Chapter 5 Making Sense of the Accountability Movement: Organized (and Profitable) Malevolence Against the Public Schools
Chapter 6 Redefining Accountability in Our Schools: Inviting Parents to the Learning Community
Chapter 7 Research Findings: Tracing a Path Toward Hope
Chapter 8 The Inversion of Visibility
Chapter 9 The Instruments of Discipline
Chapter 10 Reframing the Panopticon
Part 11 Appendices
Chapter 12 Methodology
Chapter 13 Discipline in the Public School Panopticon
Chapter 14 Osmosis and the Evolution of the Public School Panopticon
Part 15 Selected Bibliography
Part 16 About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.2.2010
Vorwort	Maxine Greene
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 232 mm
Gewicht	336 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-7391-1560-X / 073911560X
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1560-2 / 9780739115602
Zustand	Neuware