Teaching to Change the World

by Jeannie Oakes, Martin Lipton, Lauren Anderson

Teaching to Change the World is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, social justice-oriented introduction to education and teaching, and the challenges and opportunities they present. Both foundational and practical, the chapters are organized around conventional topics but in a way that consistently integrates a coherent story that explains why schools are as they are. Taking the position that a hopeful, democratic future depends on ensuring that all students learn, the text pays particular attention to inequalities associated with race, social class, language, gender, and other social categories and explores teachers’ role in addressing them.

This thoroughly revised fifth edition remains a vital introduction to the profession for a new generation of teachers who seek to become purposeful, knowledgeable practitioners in our ever-changing educational landscape—for those teachers who see the potential for education to change the world.

Features and Updates of the New

• Fully updated Chapter 1, "The U.S. Schooling Dilemma," reflects our current state of education after the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

• First-person observations from teachers, including first-year teachers, continue to offer vivid, authentic pictures of what teaching to change the world means and involves.

• Additional coverage of the ongoing effects of Common Core highlights the heated public discourse around teaching and teachers, and charter schools.

• Attention to diversity and inclusion is treated as integral to all chapters, woven throughout rather than tacked on as separate units.

• "Digging Deeper" resources on the new companion website include concrete resources that current and future teachers can use in their classrooms.

• "Tools for Critique" provides instructors and students questions, prompts, and activities aimed at encouraging classroom discussion and particularly engaging those students least familiar with the central tenets of social justice education.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Grad School, School

532 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 18, 1998

Reviews

[Krista · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good. Reading for grad school and it has great information to support the need for culturally responsive teaching. The chapters are very long and get dry in places. I wouldn't read it for fun but as a text book, it's a good one

[Anney · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book in a nutshell? There are two kinds of teachers. Traditionalist and progressive. They fight. A lot. They refuse to compromise on how to run classrooms and schools. They are responsible for everything that's wrong with the world.

[Sarah Remsing · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are so many important ideas in this book that are fundamental to addressing problems in education. There are so many underlying things that effect education and students that we have to understand before we can address teaching, and this book understands that. It asks us to reflect on both our own thinking on these topics and what the common thought has been throughout the history of education. It's an incredibly complex subject with more factors than can possibly be solved by one person, and while this book recognizes education will never be perfect it points out ways we can try to make it better.

[maur · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had to read for my education class… feels a little repetitive but has the right idea

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe I should re-read this in the near future...

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ch1, "Wrestling with History and Tradition"

[Mills College Library]

371.01097 O116t 2013

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read for my credential/masters program. A little repetitive but generally inspiring to head into the classroom.

[Mills College Library]

371.01097 O116t 2018