Hope and Healing in Urban Education: How Urban Activists and Teachers are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart

Hope and Healing in Urban Education proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by the erosion of hope resulting from structural violence in urban communities. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from around the country, this book chronicles how teacher activists employ healing strategies in stressed schools and community organizations, and work to reverse negative impacts on academic achievement and civic engagement, supporting their students to become powerful civic actors. The book argues that healing a community is a form of political action, and emphasizes the need to place healing and hope at the center of our educational and political strategies. At once a bold, revealing, and nuanced look at troubled urban communities as well as the teacher activists and community members working to reverse the damage done by generations of oppression, Hope and Healing in Urban Education examines how social change can be enacted from within to restore a sense of hope to besieged communities and counteract the effects of poverty, violence, and hopelessness.

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• Black Youth Rising: Activism and Radical Healing in Urban America
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Harvest in Translation)
• Using Equity Audits to Create Equitable and Excellent Schools
• Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
• Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids
• Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement (Critical Social Thought)
• Leadership for Social Justice and Democracy in Our Schools (The Soul of Educational Leadership Series)
• English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone
• Middle and Secondary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice