Transformative Schooling
eBook - ePub

Transformative Schooling

Towards Racial Equity in Education

  1. 170 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Transformative Schooling

Towards Racial Equity in Education

About this book

Discussions of achievement gaps are commonplace in education reform, but they are rarely interrogated as a symptom of white supremacy. As an act of disruption, award-winning scholar Vajra Watson pierces through the rhetoric and provides a provocative analysis of the ways schools can become more racially inclusive. Her research is grounded in Oakland where longitudinal data demonstrated that Black families were sending their children to school, but the ideals of an oasis of learning were being met with the realities of racism, low expectations, and marginalization. As a response to this intergenerational crisis of miseducation, in 2010, the school district joined forces with community organizers, religious leaders, neighborhood elders, teachers, parents, and students to address institutionalized racism.

Seven years later, Watson shares findings from her investigation into the school district's journey towards justice. What she creates is a wholly original work, filled with penetrating portraits that illuminate the intense and intimate complexities of working towards racial equity in education. As a formidable case study, this research scrutinizes how to reconfigure organizational ecosystems as spaces that humanize, heal, and harmonize. Emerging from her scholarship is a bold, timely, and hopeful vision that paves the way for transformative schooling.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781138107007

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword by Pedro Noguera
  8. Preface: The Person behind the Pen
  9. Acknowledgment
  10. 1 The Research Journey
  11. 2 Remember, Reclaim, Reimagine
  12. 3 Rituals of Resistance
  13. 4 An Ontological Fight for Freedom
  14. 5 Institutionalized Racism in Oakland Unified School District
  15. 6 Christopher Chatmon
  16. 7 Unapologetically Black
  17. 8 Pedagogy of Patience
  18. 9 Educational Empowerment
  19. 10 Charles Wilson
  20. 11 Superintendent Antwan Wilson
  21. 12 Obasi Davis
  22. 13 Engage, Encourage, and Empower School Districts to Transform
  23. 14 Bold Horizons
  24. Appendix A
  25. Appendix B
  26. Appendix C
  27. Appendix D
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index