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This volume explores issues involved with teaching social theory to preservice teachers pursuing degrees through teacher education programs and experienced teachers and administrators pursuing graduate degrees. The contributors detail their experiences teaching theoretical perspectives regarding race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, power, and the construction of schools as an institution of the state. The editors and contributors hope to offer the beginning of a colleagial dialogue within the field of education (both inside and outside the academy) about the relevance and pedagogical issues associated with such material. Additionally, the contributors offer advice on missteps to avoid and provide success stories that give hope to those who also wish to engage in the practice of teaching theory to teachers.
Acknowledgments.
Foreword; Steve Tozer.
Introduction; Josh Diem and Robert J. Helfenbein.
Chapter 2. Unsettling Beliefs: A Cultural Studies Approach to Teacher Education; Robert J. Helfenbein.
Chapter 3. Why Teaching Critical Social Theory as Theory Might Not Be Enough; Avner Segall.
Chapter 4. Teaching Theory Through Performance: Role Playing Cultural Capital in the Classroom; Beth Hatt.
Chapter 5. A Story of Accountable Talk: Unsettling the Normalization of a Culture of Performance at Márquez Elementary; William R. Black.
Chapter 6. Critical Pedagogy as Alternative Crisis Curriculum; William Gaudelli.
Chapter 7. Thinking Beyond Achievement in Education: Teaching Gender through a Radical Feminist Framework; Robert K. Pleasants and Matthew B. Ezzell.
Chapter 8. But That Stuff is in the Past: Teaching Whiteness and Challenging Meritocracy in an Undergraduate Teacher Education Course; Josh Diem.
Chapter 9. Positioning Culture in the Curriculum: A Freirian Orientation Toward the Thinking that Gets Thought in Teacher Education; Erik Malewski.
Chapter 10. Challenging Patriotism and Nationalism through Teacher Education: The Implications of Preservice Teachers' Understandings of Human Rights; John Myers.
Chapter 11. Critical Thinking, Social Justice, and the Role of Philosophy; Kathy Hytten.
Chapter 12. Beyond Utopianism and Pessimism: Teaching Prophetic Pragmatism's Tragic Sense; Kip Kline.
Chapter 13. Crying Out Without Voice: The Silence of Teachers; Richard Conley.
Chapter 14. Teaching Theory as Other to White Urban Practitioners: Mining and Priming Freirean Critical Pedagogy in Resistant Bodies; Sherick A. Hughes.
Chapter 15. Social Justice Activist Teaching in the University Classroom; Silvia Cristina Bettez.
About the Contributors.