Teaching defiance
Subtitle: stories and strategies for activist educators : a book written in wartime
By: by Michael Newman ; foreword by Stephen Brookfield
Edition: 1st ed
Series: The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Social action -- Study and teaching; Reformers
Description: This is a book about choice. It urges activist educators to help people break free from their pasts, take control of the present, and make deliberate defiant choices about their futures. Michael Newman examines the use of rational discourse, non-rational discourse, and storytelling to bring about personal and collective change. Using a powerful blend of theoretical discussion and step-by-step accounts of practice, Newman returns to what actually happens in that magical encounter between teacher and learner. He examines the educational use of emotions such as frustration, dismay, anger, hatred, and love. He proposes ways of teaching and learning insight. He examines how educators can teach people to take effective action, and he discusses how educators and learners can work together to make that action morally justifiable.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-295) and index
Table of contents: title: I: Making a start; title: Taking sides; title: II: Rebelliousness and defiance; title: Rebelliousness; title: Inspiring rebelliousness; title: Defiance, choice and consciousness; title: III: Choosing and taking control; title: Teaching choice; title: Collective decision making; title: Teaching dialogue; title: Conflict, negotiation and power; title: Teaching negotiation; title: Negotiation, consciousness and reflection; title: Disruptive negotiation; title: IV: Insight and action; title: Nonrational discourse and insight; title: Facilitating insight; title: Revisiting insight; title: Teaching about action; title: V: Defiance and morality; title: Constructing moralities; title: Storytelling; title: Relative and foundational moralities; title: Hating and loving