Teaching the taboo
Subtitle: courage and imagination in the classroom
By: Rick Ayers, William Ayers ; foreword to the second edition by Carol D. Lee
Contributors: Ayers, William, 1944-
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780807755280
Subjects: Teacher-student relationships; Creative teaching; Effective teaching
Description: "Rick and William Ayers renew their challenge to teachers to teach initiative, to teach imagination, to "teach the taboo" in the new edition of this bestseller. Drawing from a lifetime of deep commitment to students, teaching, and social justice, the authors update their powerful critique of schooling and present classroom stories of everyday teachers grappling with many of today's hotly debated issues. They invite educators to live a teaching life of questioning--to imagine classrooms where every established and received bit of wisdom, common sense, orthodoxy, and dogma is open for examination, interrogation, and rethinking."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-143).
Table of contents: title: Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; title: Make conflict visible : the darkness in our own hearts; title: Into the woods; title: Tell no lies : science and math matters; title: Banned, suppressed, bound, and gagged; title: Queer the common sense; title: Teaching lives; title: Release the wisdom in the room : language and power; title: Voyage to the unknown.