Unsettling Beliefs

Teaching Theory to Teachers

Josh Diem, Robert J. Helfenbein, Josh Diem, Robert J. Helfenbein

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9781593116705
  9781593116712
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607525974
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

This volume explores issues involved with teaching social theory to preservice teachers pursuing degrees through teacher education programs and experienced teachers and administrators pursuing graduate degrees. The contributors detail their experiences teaching theoretical perspectives regarding race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, power, and the construction of schools as an institution of the state. The editors and contributors hope to offer the beginning of a colleagial dialogue within the field of education (both inside and outside the academy) about the relevance and pedagogical issues associated with such material. Additionally, the contributors offer advice on missteps to avoid and provide success stories that give hope to those who also wish to engage in the practice of teaching theory to teachers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Unsettling Beliefs: Teaching Theory to Teachers
• Unsettling Beliefs: Teaching Theory to Teachers
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Unsettling Beliefs: A Cultural Studies Approach to Teacher Education
• 2. Why Teaching Critical Social Theory as “Theory” Might Not Be Enough
• 3. Teaching Theory Through Performance: Role Playing Cultural Capital in the Classroom
• 4. A Story of “Accountable” Talk: Unsettling the Normalization of a Culture of Performance at Márquez Elementary
• 5. Critical Pedagogy as Alternative Crisis Curriculum
• 6. Thinking Beyond Achievement in Education: Teaching Gender through a Radical Feminist Framework
• 7. “But That’s in the Past, Right?”: Using Theories of Whiteness to Challenge Meritocracy and Disrupt the Racist Narrative of Racism
• 8. Positioning Culture in the Curriculum: A Freirian Orientation Toward the “Thinking that Gets Thought” in Teacher Education
• 9. Challenging Patriotism and Nationalism through Teacher Education: The Implications of Preservice Teachers’ Understandings of Human Rights
• 10. Critical Thinking, Social Justice, and the Role of Philosophy
• 11. Beyond Utopianism and Pessimism: Teaching “Prophetic Pragmatism’s” Tragic Sense
• 12. Crying Out Without Voice: The Silence of Teachers
• 13. Teaching Theory as “Other” to White Urban Practitioners: Mining and Priming Freirean Critical Pedagogy in Resistant Bodies
• 14. Social Justice Activist Teaching in the University Classroom
• About the Contributors