Un-American Acts (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Un-American Acts focuses on identity and invisibility of African American and other underrepresented youth in the U.S. society and schooling. Presented are a series of chapters rooted in critical theory, aesthetics, and moral imagination that are intended to serve as prompts for crucial conversations and for engaging in critical reflective pedagogy in educational leadership and educational studies. Chapters center on events that have transpired in Ferguson, Staten Island, South Carolina, and elsewhere in the U.S. as well as on other relevant concerns that have had a profound impact on perceptions of race and identity in our nation’s educational systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sense Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789463003285
• Artikelnr.: 44485525

Inhaltsangabe

Un-American Acts.- Now Is the Time for Change.- Time of the Brave Mask, a Metaphor for Racial Identity/Invisibility in US Schools: An Arts-Based Reflection.- Dualities of Identity in Morally Autonomous Leadership.- Promoting Equity and Justice through Storytelling.- Control and Conformity: Critical Reflexive Narratives on Identity.- From Vesey to Pinckney: Finding Meaning in the Legacy of Mother Emanuel and the Martyrdom of Her Spiritual Leaders.- Reflections on the Vesey Chapter.- Letters.- Un-Civil Media and the Social War: Uninformed Facebook Perspectives of the Civil War.- Case Study Addressed by Graduate Students.