Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader (The Teaching for Social Justice)

Controversies in the Classroom features the most important and exciting writing from the past 15 years of Radical Teacher magazine. This is a must read for all teachers who are committed to creative pedagogy and social justice.





Forward by Deborah Meier



Part I: Teaching About War



1. Whose Terrorism? by Bill Bigelow



2. Can Vietnam Awaken Us Again? Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War by H. Bruce Franklin



3. Dialogues About 9/11, the Media and Race: Lessons from a Secondary Classroom by Rita Verma



Part II: Teaching About Globalization



4. What is Globalization? by Arthur MacEwan


5. Sweating the Small Stuff: Mickie, Michael and the Global Sweat Shop by Maria Sweeney and Marjorie Feld



6. Planting Seeds of Solidarity by Bob Peterson


Part III: Teaching about Race, Ethnicity and Language



7. Revisiting the Struggle for Integration by Michelle Fine and Bernadette Anand



8. A High School Class on Race and Racism by Lawrence Blum


9. Naming and Interrogating Our English-Only Legacy by Lilia I. Bartolome and Pepi Leistyna


Part IV: Teaching About Gender and Sexualities


10. Teaching and Learning Through Desire, Crisis and Difference: Perverted Reflections on Anti-Oppressive Education by Kevin K. Kumashiro


11. Bridging Multicultural Education: Bringing Sexual Orientation Into the Children's and Young Adult Literature Classrooms by Patti Capel Swartz


12. Nuns, Midwives and Witches: Women's Studies in the Elementary Classroom by Sarah Napier



Part V: Threats to Public Education: Testing, Tracking and Privatization



13. Leaving Public Education Behind by Stan Karp


14. ''I Plan to Be Somebody:'' The Absence of Tracking is a Deeply Radical Idea by Nancy Barnes



15. After Katrina: Tales from a Chartered School Classroom by Nicole Polier


Epilogue: Paolo Freire -- On Hope by Kathleen Weiler