A01=Christopher D. Thomas
Author_Christopher D. Thomas
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civic activism
civics education
David Hogg
educational spending
Emma Gonzalez
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gun control advocacy
history and philosophy of education
March for our Lives
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
nation at risk
NCLB
neoliberal educational policy
Neoliberalism
Never Again hashtag
no child left behind
Parkland shooting
police officers in schools
school discipline
school shootings
school violence
social media protests
student protests
teacher agency
teacher education
teacher pay cuts
teacher salary
teacher strikes
teacher tenure policy
teacher unions
twitter activism
Product details
- ISBN 9780807766910
- Weight: 361g
- Dimensions: 152 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2022
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the spring of 2018, hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and their allies have protested at or against their schools. These students and teachers have been protesting on a wide range of issues from gun control and climate change to the underfunding of education and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Reclaiming Democratic Education, Chris Thomas examines how these activities exist at the intersection of two conflicting traditions. The book looks at a history of student and teacher activism that aligns with the democratic purposes of public education. This history is now colliding with current policies that privilege the economic aims of education and restrict civic agency. By situating contemporary activism within these conflicting traditions, Thomas demonstrates how these activities constitute a rejection of the currently dominant policy paradigm in U.S. education. Thomas concludes with a discussion of how activism provides a foundation from which concerned teachers, school leaders, and policymakers can develop a new model for American education, one that reclaims an education for citizenship.
Book Features:
- Traces the interconnected histories of student and teacher activism, from the Revolutionary Period through the Common School Movement and the decade of protests in the 1960s to today.
- Demonstrates how education policy positions teachers as the passive recipients of policy, who are often expected to sacrifice their own wellbeing for that of their students.
- Provides a roadmap of policy shifts that would disrupt the currently dominant paradigm in American education and realize an Education for Citizenship paradigm.
Christopher D. Thomas is a practicing attorney with Frost Brown Todd LLC, where he represents local school districts and other governmental entities. Prior to practicing law, Chris was a high school English teacher. He earned his JD and PhD in educational studies, specializing in educational policy, from The Ohio State University.
