Detoxing American Schools
From Social Agency to Academic Urgency
Seiten
2020
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-5263-9 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-5263-9 (ISBN)
Examines the problems associated with the toxic environment found in many American public education institutions
Detoxing America Schools: From Social Agency to Academic Urgency examines the issue of toxicity in public education institutions. Today’s students are exposed to personal beliefs, lifestyle practices, and politicized educational policies—many of which are in contrast to the values of their upbringing. The innate toxic intentions of some teachers are revealed by their unabashed calls for students to take sides through avenues of shaming and even civil disobedience.
Schools have become vessels of social agency. The time has come to detox American education and to call for teachers to return to the urgent, fundamental mission of educating students academically.
Too many teachers are following the paradigm found on many college campuses, as they use prior experience to stir up students and bring new levels of emotion into their classrooms. The classroom environment has flipped and what was once tolerance has become the new toxic intolerance.
Fractious Americans seem addicted to the use of polarized issues as social and emotional intoxicants. Groups are strategic in seizing upon differences to ensure augmentation and marginalization upon ideological lines, intensified often by the flames of social media and intolerant activism.
College students emerging from Gen Z are more radicalized from their time at college. Unless American educators agree to step back from certain poisonous rhetoric and noxious activism, our nation will continue to lose sight of the academic urgency before us, and with it a generation of children.
Detoxing America Schools: From Social Agency to Academic Urgency examines the issue of toxicity in public education institutions. Today’s students are exposed to personal beliefs, lifestyle practices, and politicized educational policies—many of which are in contrast to the values of their upbringing. The innate toxic intentions of some teachers are revealed by their unabashed calls for students to take sides through avenues of shaming and even civil disobedience.
Schools have become vessels of social agency. The time has come to detox American education and to call for teachers to return to the urgent, fundamental mission of educating students academically.
Too many teachers are following the paradigm found on many college campuses, as they use prior experience to stir up students and bring new levels of emotion into their classrooms. The classroom environment has flipped and what was once tolerance has become the new toxic intolerance.
Fractious Americans seem addicted to the use of polarized issues as social and emotional intoxicants. Groups are strategic in seizing upon differences to ensure augmentation and marginalization upon ideological lines, intensified often by the flames of social media and intolerant activism.
College students emerging from Gen Z are more radicalized from their time at college. Unless American educators agree to step back from certain poisonous rhetoric and noxious activism, our nation will continue to lose sight of the academic urgency before us, and with it a generation of children.
Dr. Ernest J. Zarra III is a lifelong educator. Ernie has authored ten books and over a dozen journal articles, served as a district professional development leader, and has presented as keynote speaker for various educational, and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Lewis-Clark State College.
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List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: America’s Toxic History
Chapter 2: Neo-Toxic Culture
Chapter 3: Trauma and Drama
Chapter 4: Are You a Toxic Teacher?
Chapter 5: Toxic Teachings
Chapter 6: Detoxing American Schools
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 3 tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 458 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4758-5263-0 / 1475852630 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4758-5263-9 / 9781475852639 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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