Teacher Education with an Attitude: Preparing Teachers to Educate Working-Class Students in Their Collective Self-Interest

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Patrick J. Finn and Mary E. Finn I. Addressing Issues of Class, Race, and Culture 1 Teacher Education With an Attitude: Completing the Revolution 15 Patrick J. Finn 2 Labor Deserves Credit: The Popular Education Foundations of the National Labor College 33 Susan J. Schurman 3 Coalition for Educational Justice: Antiracist Organizing and Teacher Education 47 Alex Caputo-Pearl, Kahllid A. Al-Alim, and Frances A. Martin II. Social Justice Teacher Education in Undergraduate Courses 4 Developing Critically Reflective Practitioners: Integrating a Practice-Reflection-Theory Cycle of Learning in an Undergraduate Literacy Course 63 Gillian S. Richardson and Rosemary K. Murray 5 Teacher Education and Community Organizing 79 Dennis Shirley 6 Learning to Act: Interactive Performance and Preservice Teacher Education 95 Rosalie M. Romano viii CONTENTS III. Social Justice Teacher Education in Graduate School 7 New Literacies With an Attitude: Transformative Teacher Education through Digital Video Learning Tools 111 Suzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz 8 The Journey to Justice: Inquiry as a Framework for Teaching Powerful Literacy 127 Diane Zigo 9 Accessing Praxis: Practicing Theory, Theorizing Practice in Social Justice Teachers’ First Year of Teaching 141 Peter Hoffman-Kipp and Brad Olsen 10 Russian Children in American Schools: Towards Intercultural Dialogue in Diverse Classrooms and Teacher Preparation Programs 157 Vladimir Ageyev IV. Social Justice Teacher Education through Professional Development 11 Urban Teacher Development That Changes Classrooms, Curriculum, and Achievement 173 Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade 12 Literacy with an Attitude and Understanding the Water We Swim In 191 John Otterness 13 Popular Education in Los Angeles High School Classrooms: The Collective Bargaining Education Project 205 Linda Tubach 14 “We Cannot Avoid Taking Sides”: Teacher Unions, Urban Communities, and Social Justice in Historical Perspective 217 Lauri Johnson 15 For Further Thought 231 Mary E. Finn Contributors 247 Index 251 ...