The Social Foundations Reader

Contents: Eleanor J. Blair: A Pedagogy of Hopelessness: Fear and Loathing in 21<UP>st</UP> Century American Schools - John Dewey: My Pedagogic Creed - Pedro A. Noguera: Finding Hope Among the Hopeless - Diane Ravitch: What I Learned About School Reform - D. Kim Reid/Michelle G. Knight: Disability Justifies Exclusion of Minority Students: A Critical History Grounded in Disability Studies - Joel Spring: Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs - Paul R. Carr: Transforming Educational Leadership Without Social Justice?: Looking at Critical Pedagogy as More Than a Critique, and a Way Toward «Democracy» - Aaron David Gresson III: Race and Pedagogy - Joe L. Kincheloe: Critical Pedagogy in Action - Yolanda Medina: Art Education Programs: Empowering Social Change - Ozlem Sensoy/Robin DiAngelos: The Invisibility of Oppression - Michelle Collay: Teaching Is Leading - Mary Cowhey: Going Against the Grain - Julie A. Gorlewski: Teaching from the Test: Using High-Stakes Assessments to Enhance Student Learning - Bettina L. Love: «Too Young for the Marches but I Remember These Drums»: Recommended Pedagogies for Hip Hop - Based Education and Youth Studies - Yolanda Medina: The Issue of identity - Sandra Liliana Pucci/Gregory J. Cramer: The Story of Cesar Chavez High School: One Small School's Struggle for Biliteracy - Lisa Delpit: Warm Demanders: The Importance of Teachers in the Lives of Children of Poverty - Henry A. Giroux: In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis - Patricia H. Hinchey: Starting Points: Assumptions and Alternatives - Gloria Ladson-Billings: But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy - Barbara Madeloni/Julie A. Gorlewski: Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question: Why We Need Critical Teacher Education, Not Standardization - Angela Anselmo/Alma Rubal-Lopez: Community - Sandra A. Butvilofsky: «What I know about Spanish is that I don't talk it much»: Bilingual Fifth-Grade Students'

Eleanor Blair (PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) is Associate Professor at Western Carolina University (WCU). She teaches foundations of education courses in curriculum, teacher leadership and history/philosophy of education at WCU and in Jamaica through the WCU-Jamaica program. Recent publications include a revised edition of Teacher Leadership: The «New» Foundations of Teacher Education: A Reader and Foundations of Education: Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Leadership in Diverse 21st Century Schools (forthcoming in 2016).
Yolanda Medina is Associate Professor in the Teacher Education Department at BMCC/City University of New York. She is a co-editor of Latinas/os on the East Coast: A Critical Reader (Lang, 2015), and is the author of Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy: Toward a Theory of Self and Social Empowerment (2012) and of several articles and book chapters on critical pedagogy, cultural studies and aesthetic education. She is past president of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) and vice president of the Maxine Greene Center for Aesthetic Education and Social Imagination.