9780807069158-0807069159-We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780807069158
ISBN-10: 0807069159
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Bettina Love
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover 200 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780807069158
ISBN-10: 0807069159
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Bettina Love
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover 200 pages

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We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (ISBN-13: 9780807069158 and ISBN-10: 0807069159), written by authors Bettina Love, was published by Beacon Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Education Theory (Student Life, Schools & Teaching, Workbooks, Study Guides & Workbooks) books. You can easily purchase or rent We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Education Theory books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.55.

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Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.

Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex.

To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
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