Full Description
Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas brings together senior scholars and activist teachers to explore the concept of resistance as a necessary response to mandates that conflict with their understanding of quality teaching. The book provides vivid examples of the pedagogical, professional, and democratic principles undergirding resistance, as well as the distinct perspective of each of its contributors: teachers who reflect on their acts of principled resistance; teacher educators who study teachers and support their professional growth; and historians who demonstrate that a tradition of teachers' principled resistance has had a significant impact on American society, not only on schools and teaching. They also show the steps teachers take, in their reasoning and in their actions, to resist policies and mandates they are expected to enact.
This volume offers a critical and unique resource for teacher educators who are preparing prospective teachers to navigate the contentious terrain of education politics, teachers who are interested in leading change, and others interested in educational ethics.
Contents
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Doris A. Santoro and Lizabeth Cain
Part 1 Pedagogical Principles
1. THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION'S REJECTION OF THE COMMON CORE
A Case History of Teacher Resistance
Michelle Strater Gunderson
2. PRINCIPLED RESISTANCE TO SYSTEM MANDATES AMONG EARLY-CAREER TEACHERS
Clive Beck, Clare Kosnik, Judy Caulfield, and Yiola Cleovoulou
3. RESISTING NO-EXCUSES CULTURE AS A BLACK MALE TEACHER
Valuing Critical Thinking and Relationships over Compliance
Randy R. Miller, Sr.
4. WORKING THE SYSTEM
Teacher Resistance in a Context of Compliance
Alisun Thompson and Lucinda Pease-Alvarez
Part 2 Professional Principles
5. THE UNITED TEACHERS OF NEW ORLEANS STRIKE OF 1990
Emma Long
6. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
Principled Responses to an Ethos of Privatization in Teacher Education
Margaret Smith Crocco<
7. BUILDING FOUNDATIONS FOR PRINCIPLED RESISTANCE
Tom Meyer, Christine McCartney, and Jacqueline Hesse
8. TEACHER RESISTANCE
Personal or Professional?
Jocelyn Weeda
Part 3 Democratic Principles
9. DEDICATED, BELOVED, AND DISMISSED
Teachers as Public Intellectuals in New York City Public Schools of the 1950s
Lizabeth Cain
10. STAKING A CLAIM IN MAD RIVER
Advancing Civil Rights for Queer America
Karen Graves and Margaret A. Nash
11. TEACHING AND LEADING AS A PRINCIPLED ACT
How Ethel T. Overby Built Foot Soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1957
Adah Ward Randolph and Dwan V. Robinson
12. TWEETING TO TRANSGRESS
Teachers on Twitter as Principled Resisters
Jessica Hochman, Doris A. Santoro, and Stephen Houser
13. NAVIGATING DILEMMAS IN A DEMOCRACY
Lizabeth Cain and Doris A. Santoro
Notes
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
