Full Description
Disrupting Hate in Education aims to identify and respond to the ideological forms of hate and fear that are present in schools, which echo larger nativist and populist agendas. Contributions to this volume are international in scope, providing powerful examples from US schools and communities, examining anti-extremism work in the UK, the "saffronization" of schools in India, struggles to re-orient the villainization of teachers in Brazil, and more. Written by a dynamic group of activist educators and critical researchers, chapters demonstrate how conservative mobilizations around collective identities gain momentum, and how these mobilizations can be interrupted. Out of these interruptions come new opportunities to practice a critically democratic education that hinges upon risk-taking, deep dialogue, and creating a space for common dignity.
Contents
INTRODUCTION Understanding and Interrupting Hate; 1 Civility and Democratic Schools Under Assault: Engaging "Teaching Tolerance.org" as Interruption, An Interview with Maureen Costello; 2 "'Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!': Teaching in Authoritarian Times"; 3 Collective Strength and Agency: How El Paso Firme/Strong Disrupts Hate, Fear, and White Nationalism in the Settler Colonial BorderLands.; 4 Bomb Threats and Black Lives Matter at School: Teaching and Organizing Against White Supremacy in K-12 Education; GLOBAL VIEWPOINTS; 5 Interrupting Hate Before It Starts; 6 "Giving the World a More Human Face" deferred. South Africa's Neoliberalism, Misogyny and Xenophobia; 7 Hate, bigotry, and discrimination against Muslims: Urdu during the Hindutva Rule; 8 Understanding the Hate Against Teachers in Brazil; 9 Successful Actions- Interrupting Hate Against Roma through Dialogue in Spain; 10 State and Hate in Myanmar: One Lone Educator's Resistance through Public Pedagogy; CONCLUSION Why Educational Action is So Important Now
