Walkout! : teacher militancy, activism, and school reform

• Other Authors: D'Amico Pawlewicz, Diana (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2022.
• Series: Research in educational policy.
• Subjects: Teachers' unions > United States > 21st century.; Teachers > United States > Social conditions > 21st century.; Educational change > United States > History > 21st century.; Educational accountability > United States > History > 21st century.; Public schools > United States > History > 20th century.; Education > Educational Policy & Reform > Federal Legislation.; Teaching staff.; Educational strategies and policy.; Central, national, federal government policies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806602681
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64802-601-0
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages)

"Teacher unions and their members have long stood as polarizing figures in a vast educational landscape. As in the Western films of the 1920s, policymakers, education reformers, and onlookers often assign union leaders and the teachers they represent either the white hats of heroes or the black...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Beyond the white hat/black hat: Considering teachers unions, public schools, and American society / Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
• Part I. More than prologue: Learning from the past to understand the present
• Chapter 1. Defining and defending professionalism: A long view of teacher unionism / Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz, Nick Juravich, and Jonna Perrillo
• Chapter 2. Black educators in the southern freedom struggle and its implication for the red for ed reform movement / Jon N. Hale and Katherine F. Blanton
• Chapter 3. How do teachers' unions affect education outcomes? Reviewing the latest research on the rent-seeking debate / Joshua Cowen and Katharine O. Strunk
• Chapter 4. Educators' working conditions are students' learning conditions: Differences in the literature with and for contemporary educator movements / Erin Dyke
• Part II. Teacher voice and social justice
• Chapter 5. Who speaks for teachers? Teachers' voice and teacher unions in AI? new era / Morgaen Donaldson, Jennie Weiner, and Julianna Kershen
• Chapter 6. A new era in conflict over education policy: The 2012 chicago teachers union strike / Kate Phillippo, Melissa Fisher, Joseph Ferrare, and Paul Stromberg
• Chapter 7. Visions of social justice teacher unionism: An analysis of interviews with social justice union organizers across transnational contexts / Grace Cornell Gonzales
• Chapter 8. Teachers as political actors: Social justice caucuses and the fight to transform public education / Chloe Asselin
• Part III. New frontiers in teacher militancy and activism
• Chapter 9. After the vote: Unionization's impact on chicago's charter schools / David S. Woo and Bradley D. Marianno
• Chapter 10. I don't need your permission, i'm just walking out: Networked teacher activism and the #oklaedwalkout / Marie K. Heath and Daniel G. Krutka
• Chapter 11. Traversing the capitol, the corner, and the classroom: West virginia teachers staking their claim / Audra Slocum and Malayna Bernstein, with Heather DeLuca-Nestor, Jacob Staggers, and Emily Tanzey
• About the Contributors.