Teaching as Protest

Emancipating Classrooms Through Racial Consciousness

Robert S. Harvey, Susan Gonzowitz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032024394
• eBook ISBN: 9781000540604
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Classroom Management

Teaching as Protest explores how K-12 teachers can expand the boundaries of their profession with anti-oppressive, community-building pedagogies. Now more than ever, students are looking to their schools to make meaning of our nation's complicated and compounded traumas, namely those at the intersection of race, class, gender, and power. This book provides historical and philosophical perspectives into liberatory instructional work, while offering planning, preparation, and practice tools whose modalities recognize identity and mindsets, emphasizing schools that predominantly serve Black students. By moving beyond conventional tools and tasks such as standards, lesson-planning, and grade-team meetings and into more emancipatory, student-centered approaches, teachers can answer the call to a more just and radical demonstration of protest intended to disrupt and dismantle oppression, racism, and bias.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• 1 The Moral Arc of Pedagogical Protest: From Resistance to Reimagination
• 2 Disordered Attachments: The Risks and Revolution of Identities Work
• 3 An Appeal to White Folx in White Spaces: What Are We Giving Up?
• 4 But If Faced With Courage: Talk About History in Today’s Context
• 5 Two Sides of the Same Coin: Talk About Power, Not Only Oppression
• 6 Just Another Day: Talk About the Everydayness of Race
• 7 How Does It Feel to Not Be a Problem? Talk About Whiteness
• 8 Ain’t I A Human? Talk About Personhood, Not Production
• 9 And Ways to Grow: Talk About a Literacy as a Tool
• 10 The World Can’t Take It Away: Talk About Joy
• Conclusion: On Inconvenience