Jay Gillen

The Power in the Room (eBook, ePUB)

Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a strong economic and political foundation on which to build radical public education. Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen describes the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) as a youth-run cooperative enterprise in which young people direct their peers' and their own learning for a wage. BAP and similar enterprises are creating an educational network of empowered, employed students. Gillen argues that this is a proactive political, economic, and educational structure that builds relationships among and between students and their communities. It's a structure that meets communal needs-material and social, economic and political-both now and in the future. Through the story of the Baltimore Algebra Project, readers will learn why youth employment is a priority, how to develop democratic norms and cultures, how to foster positive community roles for 20-30 year-olds, and how to implement educational accountability from below.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807064702
• Artikelnr.: 56950612

Autorenporträt

Jay Gillen has taught and organized in and around Baltimore City Public Schools since 1987. In 1994, after a 2-year organizing campaign, he became teacher-director of the new Stadium Middle School, the first community-controlled public school in Baltimore in many years. Working with graduates of the Stadium School, Gillen developed the peer-tutoring Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP). He currently teaches in a juvenile detention center for young women and is helping to develop a peer-to-peer youth enterprise incubator. Gillen is the author of numerous articles and the book Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
INTRODUCTION
Organizing, Economics, and the African American Educational Tradition
PART I: Structures
CHAPTER 1
From Crawl Spaces to a Youth Economy
CHAPTER 2
Solving Our Own Problems
CHAPTER 3
Building Capacity
PART II: Re-rooting Education
CHAPTER 4
An Educational Bureaucracy Built on Violence
CHAPTER 5
Base Communities: Re-rooting Education
CHAPTER 6
Accountability, the National Student Bill of Rights, and the Legacy of
Struggle
Acknowledgments
Notes