This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today.
This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today. These neoliberalist hierarchies imposed through traditional, autocratic knowledge systems have driven much of the United States' educational policies and reforms, including STEM, high stakes testing, individual-based accountability, hierarchical grading systems, and ability grouping tracks. The net effect of such policies and reforms is an education system that perpetuates social inequalities linked with race, class, gender, and sexuality. Instead, the author suggests that accountability pushes past individualism in education by highlighting democratic methods to produce a collective good as opposed to a narrow personal success. In this democratic model, participants contribute to the common goal of elevating the entire group. Drawing from a well of creative praxes, reflexivity, and spiritual engagement, contributors incorporate collective dreaming to envision alternate realities of learning and schooling and summon the spirit into action for change.
1. Introduction: We Already Know.- 2. Living Praxes and Principals.- 3. Spill the Tea.- 4. Mathematics with Open Arms.- 5. I Am Because We Are.- 6. Reclaiming Our Excellence.- 7. Conclusion: Dreaming Between Worlds.
Julio Cammarota is Professor of Education at the University of Arizona, USA. His research focuses on participatory action research with Latinx youth, institutional factors in academic achievement, and liberatory pedagogy.
Über den Autor
Julio Cammarota is Professor of Education at the University of Arizona, USA. His research focuses on participatory action research with Latinx youth, institutional factors in academic achievement, and liberatory pedagogy.rn
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: We Already Know.- 2. Living Praxes and Principals.- 3. Spill the Tea.- 4. Mathematics with Open Arms.- 5. I Am Because We Are.- 6. Reclaiming Our Excellence.- 7. Conclusion: Dreaming Between Worlds.
Klappentext
This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today. These neoliberalist hierarchies imposed through traditional, autocratic knowledge systems have driven much of the United States' educational policies and reforms, including STEM, high stakes testing, individual-based accountability, hierarchical grading systems, and ability grouping tracks. The net effect of such policies and reforms is an education system that perpetuates social inequalities linked with race, class, gender, and sexuality. Instead, the author suggests that accountability pushes past individualism in education by highlighting democratic methods to produce a collective good as opposed to a narrow personal success. In this democratic model, participants contribute to the common goal of elevating the entire group. Drawing from a well of creative praxes, reflexivity, and spiritual engagement, contributors incorporate collective dreaming to envision alternate realities of learning and schooling and summon the spirit into action for change.
First work to deconstruct individualism and review its impact on educational reforms for the past 50 years
Provides an overview of the history of individualism in education in the United States
Offers alternatives to education by advocating for time-tested cultural beliefs in collaborative learning and collective being
