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The future of our schools : teachers unions and social justice / Lois Weiner.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781608462629 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1608462625 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 229 pages ; 19 cm
- Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2012]
- Copyright: 2012
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Understanding the assault on public education -- Protecting the heart of teaching -- Building social movement teachers unions -- The new landscape -- Teacher unionism 101 -- Introduction -- "Cracks in Shanker's empire" -- "Democratizing the schools" -- "Class, gender, and race in the Newark teacher strikes" -- "Neoliberalism, teacher unionism, and the future of public education" -- "The (people's) summit of the Americas" -- "Teacher unionism reborn." |
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| Subject: | Teachers' unions. Social justice. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | LB 2844.52 .W45 2012 | 30775305458763 | General Collection | Available | - |
The Future of Our Schools : Teachers Unions and Social Justice
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The Future of Our Schools : Teachers Unions and Social Justice
In The Future of Our Schools , Lois Weiner explains why teachers who care passionately about teaching and social justice need to unite the energy for teaching to efforts to self-govern and transform teacher unions. Drawing on research, her experience as a public school teacher, and as a union activist, she explains how to create the teachers unions public education desperately needs. Lois Weiner is a professor at New Jersey City University and has been a life-long teacher union activist who has served as an officer of three different union locals. She is the author of The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistanc e .
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