Full Description
Featuring accounts of P-12 educators, Rebellious Education: Joyful Teaching as Resistance in the American South and Appalachia offers a rebellious counter-narrative to the modern tale that teaching is a profession void of joy. Like the teaching profession itself, the American South and Appalachia are areas with juxtaposed narratives, both romanticized and villainized in popular culture. In this book, teachers in Southern and Appalachian spaces reveal their experiences of enacting their practice in challenging situations, but this is balanced with purposeful pedagogies and powerful accounts of teaching as an act of joyful resistance, pushing back against the stereotypes and false narratives currently plaguing the profession.
This book is written for educators to provide a collection of accounts that offer hope and resilience to those working to make our schools better places in geographic locations that often experience lower pay and less support. The book also serves as a tool to help motivate and sustain beginning and veteran teachers alike; it provides a community of voices against the ever-present message that teaching is not a profession worth pursuing.
Contents
Chapter 1. Building Lifelong Connections; Jacqueline Daniel
Chapter 2. Outcries of the Silent Voices: A Resistance Against "Bless your Heart"; Allison Jones
Chapter 3. What Got Me Through: The Importance of Mentoring and Affinity Groups for Teacher Educators of Color; Brandon J. Beck
Chapter 4. Why I have Chosen to Remain an Educator; Carlos J. Minor
Chapter 5. Community and Career Connected Learning: Creating an Ecosystem of Belonging in Appalachia; Allison Ricket, Jacqueline Yahn, and Tasha Werry
Chapter 6. Loving Coalitions: Teaching and Forming Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Community in the Classroom; Carrie Hart
Chapter 7. To Dare Mighty Things: Student-Led Communities of Learning — A Reflection on Empowered Voices and Their Transformative Power; Peter Locher
Chapter 8. My Joyous Teaching Journey; Nathan Herndon
Chapter 9. Quiet Rebellion in an AP English Classroom; Allison Thompson
Chapter 10. Establishing Connection Through Collaborative Studio Making: Working Alongside Students as an Artist; Morgan B. Clifton and Victoria Goeckel
Chapter 11. Make Social Studies Fun Again: Finding the Joy in Developing Enriching Social Studies Curriculum; Ashley Wright
Chapter 12. Persistence Through Authenticity: The Case of Two Teachers from Southwest Appalachia; Carrie Rogers
Chapter 13. Surrender the ME for the WE: Joyful Collaboration; Jordan Henry
Chapter 14. The Stories That Bind US; Jennifer Fox
Chapter 15. Pursuing Their Purpose: Oklahoma Educators Teaching What They Believe to Be Right in Contentious Time; Erin Bronstein and Don C. Murray
Chapter 16. We Probably Have It Better Than You Think: Musings of a Teacher-Rocker; David Prince
