Full Description
Antonia Darder is a Puerto Rican and American scholar, artist, poet, song writer and activist. She holds the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Her scholarship is known around the world and her efforts have earned her a large number of academic awards, including the Scholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award by the American Education Research Association.
Three critical Darderean scholars (Kortney Hernandez, Sharon Cronin, and Eduardo Lopez), who have been lovingly mentored, empowered, and challenged by Darder, and who have developed their critical consciousness through the soulful educational wisdom of Darder, have come together to embrace the (im)possible task of curating a volume of some of her most powerful educational scholarship.
This volume includes Antonia Darder's central writings on the topics of language, culture, inequality, and education. If one were to "read" Darder, as Paulo Freire encouraged us to "read the word and the world," her works would speak volumes of her unwavering commitment to the struggle for liberation and an emancipatory vision of the world. This is embodied in all aspects of her work as the range of her scholarship spans across mediums and decades. The Antonia Darder Reader is essential reading as a keystone volume in multiculturalism, critical studies, cultural studies, and many other disciplines.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Editor's Preface
Introduction
Section I: A Life of Struggle
Chapter One
Childhood Trauma and the Struggle for Liberation
Chapter Two
From Madness to Consciousness: Redemption through Politics, Art, and Love
Chapter Three
From One Never Meant to Survive
Section II: Spheres of Culture and Power: Critical Bicultural Education
Chapter Four
Reflections on Cultural Democracy and Schooling
Chapter Five
Rewriting the World: Literacy, Inequality, and the Brain
Chapter Six
Education of Values: A Conversation with Antonia Darder
Section III: Teaching as an Act of Love: Reinventing Paulo Freire
Chapter Seven
Teaching as an Act of Love: In Memory of Paulo Freire
Chapter Eight
Rethinking Critical Pedagogy: An Interview with Antonia Darder
Chapter Nine
The Profound Solidarity of Paulo Freire
Section IV: Teaching in the Flesh:Schooling the Body
Chapter Ten
Freire and the Body
Chapter Eleven
Schooling Bodies: Critical Pedagogy and Urban Youth
Chapter Twelve
Decolonizing Dance Praxis: Supporting a Language of Cultural and Community Embodiment
Section V: Teaching and Consciousness: The Making of Dissident Educators
Chapter Thirteen
The Making of a Dissident Voice
Chapter Fourteen
Racism and the Charter School Movement: Unveiling the Myths
Chapter Fifteen
Dreaming of Peace in a Culture of War: Revolutionary Considerations
Chapter Sixteen
YA BASTA! The Time for Change Is Now
Epilogue
About the Editors
Index
