Recently added articles from Radical Teacher:
Introduction: teaching & immigration.
Mar 22, 2009; ... This issue of Radical Teacher features work that conveys the urgency of teaching about immigration and offers educators ways of meeting that challenge in its full complexity. In editing this cluster of essays, we have been motivated in part by the vibrancy of the public demonstrations of ...
A dream deferred: undocumented students at CUNY.(City University of New York)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I first became aware of the difficulties for undocumented students at the City University of New York (CUNY) when I started teaching a course at Brooklyn College, a CUNY campus, on the sociology of immigration. On the first day of class, five students requested appointments to speak with ...
Teaching the immigration debate in freshman composition.
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After the largest immigration raid in U.S. history to date, the New York Times ran an editorial entitled "The Great Immigration Panic" condemning the anti-immigrant hysteria sweeping our country. It suggests that a time will come "once the enforcement ...
The plantation society, circa 2008: discussing immigration through the lens of criminology.
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The slave population, it could be and was assumed, offered itself up as surrogate selves for meditation on problems of human freedom, its lure and its elusiveness. --Toni Morrison (1) In this reflection on my teaching, I wish to ...
Teaching the letters of Sacco and Vanzetti in and against the American grain.(William Carlos Williams's essay collection In the American Grain )(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his iconic In the American Grain William Carlos Williams distinguishes between the bodies of conquerors and the souls of the murdered and defeated: "History, history! We fools, what do we know or care? History begins for us with murder and enslavement, ...
Ichiro is a punk, and other lessons from teaching "The Immigrant Experience".(teaching immigration)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... During the fourth week of the semester, one of my students in The Immigrant Experience in Fiction, Film, and Photography posed a confusing question to me in the hallway after class. "This is really interesting stuff about the 1920s," Shabana began, "but when will we have a chance to talk ...
Immigration filmography for educators.
Mar 22, 2009; ... A web search yields long lists of films about immigration--many more than can be included here. National and international, feature length and short, fiction and documentary, video and film, big budget and small, the lists go on even as new films enter into circulation. If anything, this ...
The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistance.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistance Edited by Mary Compton and Lois Weiner (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2008) This edited volume should be required reading for everyone interested in public education. In a ...
Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out Edited by Gabriela Madera, et.al. (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education. 2008) In March 2006 I had just accepted a job as an Assistant Professor of English at UCLA ...
Raising Victor Vargas in an urban high school classroom.(Teaching Notes)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The criticisms that have been leveled at the 2002 film Raising Victor Vargas are mainly fair, that is to say logical, when they note that the subject matter of working-class Dominican families in New York City's Lower East Side is expertly manipulated by the director, Peter Solett, a white ...
Teaching the body in composition class.(Teaching Notes)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In an effort to begin teaching my own interests in a recent freshman composition class at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, I decided to use issues of embodiment as a catalyst for exploring rhetoric and composition. Gregory T. Lyons's Body and Culture, a Pearson Longman reader that ...
Books by Radical Teacher collective members.(educational literature)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... * Joseph Entin, Robert C. Rosen, and Leonard Vogt, Editors. Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader. Foreword by Deborah Meier. The Teaching for Social Justice ...
Teachers Against Occupation.(special interest group's stand against military occupation)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Teachers Against Occupation (TAO) (www.teachersagainstoccupation.org) is a collective organized to coordinate various efforts by scholars and teachers to critique and resist military occupations worldwide. This site is intended to be a virtual 'meeting point' for different academic groups ...
Education and the military.(psychiatrists working at the US Army forbidden from having any direct participation in the interrogation, and military academies, education, and recruitment)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The U.S. military continues to solicit the help of psychiatrists and anthropologists in its ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In May of 2006, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) made a position statement forbidding psychiatrists from having any direct participation in the ...
Academic freedom.(college professors' influence on students' views )
Mar 22, 2009 ... Much time is spent by both right and left academics discussing how much influence professors can or should have on the politics of their students. The right propose that the "tenured radicals" are taking over the universities; the left fear denial of promotion and/or tenure. However, ...
Education and activism.(security management in student protests)
Mar 22, 2009 ... On October 1, 2008, at a Chicago Cubs game in Chicago, a group of over 1,500 students, parents, teachers, and activists were protesting outside the stadium for state educational reforms. The rally was the latest in a six-year effort lead by State Senator James L. Meeks to force Illinois ...
The economics of education.(college faculty hiring and higher education costs)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The Modern Language Association and its Association of Departments of English issued "Education in the Balance: A Report on the Academic Workforce in English" which states that a substantial number of college professors have been replaced by part-time and non-tenure track faculty. Among ...
Resources.(California Newsreel distributes educational videos for schools and universities)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... California Newsreel, a non-profit educational film distribution and production company in San Francisco, distributes films that advance social and racial justice. While the films are appropriate for high schools, most films are targeted to universities and are accompanied by facilitator ...
Introduction: radical teaching now.(Radical Teacher magazine and the United States education policy)
Dec 22, 2008; ... When this magazine started up in 1975, the founders didn't need to think a lot about its aims. Those came directly out of the 1960s movements in which we were active. The Vietnam War was over, but not U.S. militarism. We wanted to oppose it and support liberation struggles. We wanted to ...
Twisted privileges: terms of inclusion in feminist teaching.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Feminist pedagogies emerged early during the introduction of feminist thought into the academy. The first years of feminist pedagogy, like the early years of Women's Studies, focused on the inclusion of women's voices and perspectives in the classroom and the curriculum. However, for many ...