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PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools

Patrick S. De Walt, Dara N. Nix-Stevenson (Herausgeber)

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220 Seiten

2023
Information Science Reference
9781668492390 (ISBN)

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The PK-12 education system in the United States is plagued by anti-democratic and authoritarian ideologies, policies, and power structures, resulting in limited access to quality education and oppressive disciplinary practices for marginalized communities. PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools offers a powerful solution to the challenges faced in PK-12 education. Through a collection of counter-narratives, this book empowers educators, counselors, and stakeholders to challenge and disrupt the anti-democratic and authoritarian forces within schools. By sharing personal experiences, strategies, and recommendations, the book inspires academic scholars to reflect, (re)learn, and take action to support students, communities, and personal growth. It serves as a critical teaching tool, encouraging professionals to reimagine their practice and collaborate with others to create inclusive, equitable, and transformative educational environments. This book presents a path toward dismantling oppressive structures and championing an education system that prioritizes the needs and voices of all learners, making it the perfect tool for educating educators on steps for advocacy.

Patrick S. De Walt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Fresno. He has experience teaching at the elementary level: first and third grades. His research interests include: Africana Identity, Racial Identity, Theory, Curriculum Development, Teacher Education and applications of technology in education. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Multicultural Affairs. He also serves on the Advisory Board of CalStateTEACH. Dara Nix-Stevenson (she/her/they/them) is a social justice educator currently working as a Curriculum Specialist with Sincecombahee Educational Consulting. A former middle and high school science educator with twenty plus years of classroom experience, she views classrooms as transformative collaboratories where both the teacher and student can share in the learning process as co-creators of knowledge. She strives to incorporate learning as expressed by bell hooks, “But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all of its limitations, remains a location of possibility.” She hopes that when her students leave the classroom they are able to develop a critical consciousness that allows them to read the world, feel humanized, and become agents of social change. Dr. Nix received her Ph.D. in Educational Studies from UNC-Greensboro with a concentration in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Primarily interested in racial, gender, and environmental justice, her research focuses on environmental displacement, identity, resilience, and planetary citizenship. She blogs as Sincecombahee.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2023
Verlagsort	PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
ISBN-13	9781668492390 / 9781668492390
Zustand	Neuware