Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education ― Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations

With 10 new chapters, this expanded and revised second edition maintains the six themes or lenses approach to oppression in the classroom as in the original. Each part has two or more chapters and a conversation that is a dialogue between contributors with the goal of promoting different perspectives and sharing experiences and knowledge. Calling anti-oppressive education precarious and heart-breaking, the editors and contributors work toward social justice and equality, and against racism, classism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppressive behaviors. They argue that the juxtaposition of multiple approaches can engender innovation in education research and add momentum to the goal of social justice. There are 12 chapters divided into six parts: contesting authoritative discourses in education; unearthing hidden curriculums: developmentalism, race, and laughter; learning to read critically: from high school to college to teacher education; addressing resistance: uncertainties in learning to teach; complicating race and racism in theory and practice; situating anti-oppressive education in our times. Chapters are: paying with their lives; why social justice educators must engage science in all of our classrooms; disposable young mothers; raced curriculum; studying media representations to foster critical literacy; ways of reading, ways of seeing; disrupting “neutrality” and the new racism in teacher education; putting anti-oppressive language teacher education in practice; going against the grain; “Khmerican” and Lao American youths’ contested ethnic identifies; teaching in a time of war and the metaphor of two worlds; from individualism to interconnectedness; Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Bic Ngo is an Associate Professor of Culture and Teaching in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Unresolved Identities: Discourse, Ambivalence and Urban Immigrant Identities (SUNY) and the recent recipient of the Scholars Award from the William T. Grant Foundation and the Early Career Award from the Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, American Education Research Association.
Kevin Kumashiro is dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was formerly professor of Asian American Studies and chair of the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also served as primary investigator and director of a $4 million U.S. Department of Education grant-funded initiative to support Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and English-language learners in higher education. He is the award-winning author or editor of nine books on education and social justice, including ?Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture.? He is the founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, and the president of the National Association for Multicultural Education.