ISBN:
9789462095243
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (X, 104 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Unshackled: Education for Freedom, Student Achievement, and Personal Emancipation
Keywords:
Academic achievement
;
Democracy and education
;
Educational change
;
Education
;
Education
;
Bildung
;
Emanzipatorische Erziehung
;
Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- The World Under Siege and the Railroad to Freedom: Unshackled -- Global and Local Resistance; Memories of the Motherland-Africa, Unshackled -- Journey to Freedom: From Miseducation and Colonization to Liberation -- To be Unshackled: The Rise and Fall of Tucson, Arizona's Ethnic Studies Program -- Nontraditional Models of Success: The Charter School Option -- Unshackled: School Reform and the Way Forward -- References -- About the Author -- Index.
Abstract:
Harnessing conceptual inspiration through the work of Harriet Tubman and Queen Nanny the Maroon of Jamaica, this book explores the historical and contemporary role that education has-and can continually play as an instrument of personal and group liberation. The book discusses the early formations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the enslavement of native populations, and the subsequent development of the Underground Railroad and Maroon societies in the Caribbean and Americas as systems of liberation. It investigates the development and maintenance of racial, gendered and class stratifi cation, and provides a personal path to freedom as a context for a broader discussion on using education as a mechanism for dismantling the effects of colonization, miseducation, and social-psychological domination in schools and society. As a contemporary issue, it presents an in depth analysis of the Tucson Unifi ed School District in Arizona, and the controversy surrounding its ethnic studies program as an example of one of the contested sites of curriculum development and student liberation. Additionally, it discusses high performing charter schools as an alternative model of education, which may help to provide a systematic way of unshackling institutional barriers and oppression. Ultimately, this book acknowledges that today the road to freedom is still one we must all travel as: miseducation, school failure, school dropout, unemployment/underemployment, poverty, neighborhood violence, incarceration, and a growing prison industrial complex are all reminders of the work that still must be accomplished. Like those who historically sacrifi ced their lives to gain freedom and an education, today, with the lingering effects of institutionalized systems of domination, education must continue to be an instrument of social mobility and liberation, if indeed, we are to make schools and society more humane and inclusive towards those who are still waiting to be unshackled. The book presents implications regarding the treaties on education for freedom as a school reform and public policy topic
Description / Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: THE WORLD UNDER SIEGE AND THE RAILROAD TO FREEDOM: UNSHACKLED; UNSHACKLED: RAILROAD TO FREEDOM; HARRIET TUBMAN: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD; THE EXPANSIVE UR; NOTE; CHAPTER 2: GLOBAL AND LOCAL RESISTANCE; MEMORIES OF THE MOTHERLAND-AFRICA, UNSHACKLED; AN APPEAL FOR FREEDOM; ANNEXATION OF MEXICO; THE DRED SCOTT CASE AND THE CIVIL WAR; POST-EMANCIPATION: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUED; POLITICAL REPRESENTATION; ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE; EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 3: JOURNEY TO FREEDOM: FROM MISEDUCATION AND COLONIZATION TO LIBERATIONJOURNEY TO FREEDOM: GREG WIGGAN; JOURNEY TO FREEDOM: LAKIA SCOTT; JOURNEY TO FREEDOM: MARCIA WATSON; UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGICAL ENSLAVEMENT AND THE PROCESS OF LIBERATION; UNDERSTANDING SLAVERY AND COLONIZATION; A NEED FOR AN ADJUSTMENT IN THINKING; BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF DECOLONIZATION; IGNORING THE DANGERS; THE DECOLONIZATION AS A SOCIAL ACT; ISSUES OF DECOLONIZATION; THE COLONIZED DILEMMA; EDUCATION FOR PERSONAL EMANCIPATION
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 4: TO BE UNSHACKLED: THE RISE AND FALL OF TUCSON, ARIZONA'S ETHNIC STUDIES PROGRAMBLACK AND LATINO/LATINA RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA; THE MOVEMENT TOWARDS EQUALITY; CURRICULUM SEGREGATION; ETHNIC STUDIES IN ARIZONA: THE BEGINNING; ETHNIC STUDIES IN ARIZONA: THE RISE AND FALL; ETHNIC STUDIES IN ARIZONA: THE AFTERMATH; CURRENT HEGEMONIC SYSTEMS; BENEFITS OF ETHNIC STUDIES; LIBERATION THROUGH CURRICULUM; CHAPTER 5: NONTRADITIONAL MODELS OF SUCCESS: THE CHARTER SCHOOL OPTION; THE LEGISLATIVE PUSH FOR OPTIONS IN SCHOOLING
Description / Table of Contents:
CHARTER SCHOOLS AND URBAN STUDENT POPULATIONS: EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM AWAITSCHARTER MODELS UNDER QUESTION; Voluntary Racial Segregation; Teacher Quality and Turnover; Systems of Privilege; CHARTER MODELS AS AN EMANCIPATORY EDUCATION; EXEMPLARY CHARTER MODELS; Harlem Children's' Zone; Knowledge is Power Program; Animo Leadership Charter School; Youth Engaged in Service (YES Prep); Roxbury Preparatory Charter School; CHAPTER 6: UNSHACKLED: SCHOOL REFORM AND THE WAY FORWARD; NATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS; STATE AND DISTRICT RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-6209-524-3
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