Social Justice Re-Examined: Dilemmas and solutions for the classroom teacher - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1858565073 ISBN 13: 9781858565071

Publisher: Trentham Books Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Teachers want to do their best for every child, but worry about causing offence and often shy away from troublesome issues. The classroom situations and strategies presented here will help teachers negotiate their way through complex situations and bring about constructive change. This book clarifies concepts and value differences and the subtle ways in which inequality often works. Theoretical as well as practical, these chapters look from inside out from the perspective of the teacher. They cover a wide range of issues: race, gender, poverty and class, sexuality, religion, English as an Additional Language, Islamophobia, Traveller children and ADHD. The book is essential reading for student teachers, early career teachers and teacher educators, but will also be invaluable for experienced teachers as they navigate their work in an increasingly diverse society.

About this title

Review:

This rich collection will help to empower new and experienced teachers in moving towards a socially just future and holding onto a sense of joy in teaching. --Professor Meg Maguire, Professor of Sociology of Education, King's College London.

An accessible and inspiring book linking practice and theory. It exposes the mechanisms of unequal power and offers ways we can challenge them. --Alex Bridge, student teacher

About the Author:

Rowena Arshad is Head of the Institute for Education, Community and Society at Moray House, University of Edinburgh, where Lynne Pratt is Programme Director PGDE Secondary and Lecturer in Language Studies. Terry Wrigley is Visiting Professor at Leeds Metropolitan University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trentham Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1858565073
• ISBN 13: 9781858565071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Arshad Rowena, Wrigley Terry, Pratt Lynne