Böcker av William Ayers

The word 'dignity' isn't typically used in education, yet it's at the core of strong pedagogy. This book shows readers what education looks like when it is centered on students' dignity. It brings dignity into sharper focus, moving the field toward a language that captures what is required for oppressed communities to recognise their potential.

Education activist William Ayers invites new and prospective teachers to consider the deepest dimensions of a life in teaching. This guide features hands-on advice and examples of classroom practice, including curriculum-making, building relationships with students, fostering an effective learning environment, and teaching toward freedom.

Overturns common misconceptions about charter schools, school "choice," standardized tests, common core curriculum, and teacher evaluations.Three distinguished educators, scholars, and activists flip the script on many enduring and popular myths about teachers, teachers' unions, and education that permeate our culture. By unpacking these myths, and underscoring the necessity of strong and vital public schools as a common good, the authors challenge readers--whether parents, community members, policy makers, union activists, or educators themselves--to rethink their assumptions.

These essays follow a veteran teacher educator and school reform activist as he tries to understand an enterprise he calls ""mysterious and immeasurable."" Focusing on his experiences, Bill Ayers argues, reflects, and searches for ways to break through the routine and the ordinary to see teaching as the important and extraordinary work it is.