Full Description
Across the globe, students are speaking up, walking out, and marching for social and ecological justice. Despite deficit discourses about students, youth are using their voice and agency to call forth a better world. Will educators respond to this call to stand with students in relational solidarity as co-constructors of a new tomorrow? What is possible when teachers and students engage together in new ways? Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency offers insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance. It asserts that students are both capable and competent. Taking a narrative approach, this book honors academic work that is rooted in educational practice. Expanding beyond traditional conceptions of student voice, chapters engage in meditations on three themes: identity, pedagogy, and partnership. This book is an exploration of with-ness, a way of knowing, being, and acting. By centralizing the all-too-often suppressed wisdom of youth, teachers and researchers engage in new forms of critique and possibility-making with students. Editors reflect on this central theme, exploring the dimensions of such pedagogies of with-ness. Through this book, teachers are invited to imagine pedagogy under this new framework, actively committed to students, their voice, and mutual engagement.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword—Kevin Kumashiro
Student voice and agency: Introducing three galleries of work—Linda Hogg, Kevin Stockbridge, Charlotte Achieng-Evensen, and Suzanne SooHoo
Who is Listening to Students? —Christopher Lewis
The Identity and Voice Gallery
The Identity and Voice Gallery—Charlotte Achieng-Evensen
"The Unnecessary Gendering of Everything": Gender Diverse Adults Speak Back to Their K-12 Schools—Katherine Lewis
Truancy: Young People Walk Away from Negative School Factors—Delia Baskerville
Rooted and Rising: The Self-liberation of Female African-American Students—Michelle Flowers-Taylor
Voices of Scholars: Academically Successful Black Males and Their Stories of Culturally Relevant Pedagogies—Quaylan Allen
Empowering Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders—Gabrielle Popp
Into the Future By, With and For Indigenous Youth: Rangatahi M?ori Leading Youth Conversations—Huia Tomlins-Jahnke, Joanna Kidman, and Adreanne Ormond
The Pedagogy Gallery
The Pedagogy Gallery—Linda Hogg
Making Music Grow: Student Perspectives on Culturally Responsive Music Education—Tracy Rohan
"People Don't Understand": Children Learning Through Drama as a Way to Develop Student Voice—Delia Baskerville and Dayle Anderson
Student Voices in the Digital Hubbub—Chris Proctor and Antero Garcia
"Multiple Perspectives and Many Connections": Systems Thinking and Student Voice—Amy Lassiter Ardell and Margaret Sauceda Curwen
Finding Hope Through Dystopian Novels—Christopher Lewis
The Youth-Adult Partnerships Gallery
The Youth-Adult Partnerships Gallery—Kevin Stockbridge
We're the bosses: Youth Action Council Designs an Equitable Makerspace—Day Greenberg, Micaela Balzar, Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan, YAC Youth
Repurposing the Master's Tools: Leveraging Business Education to Build a Better World—Linda Hogg and Anne Yates
Applying Gentleness Against the Force: The Dojo as a Site of Liberation for Autistic People—Erin McCloskey
"It Was Time for Us To Take A Stand": An Ethnic Studies Classroom and the Power of Student Voice—Jorge F Rodriguez, Carah Reed and Karen Garcia
Collaborative Leadership: A Story of Student-Principal School Transformation—Susanne Jungersen
Angeles Workshop School: An Experiment in Student Voice—Ndindi Kitonga
Pedagogies of With-ness: Reflecting on and Beyond the Exhibition—Linda Hogg, Charlotte Achieng-Evensen, Kevin Stockbridge, and Suzanne SooHoo
Contributors
Index
