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Tables of Contents for Education Is Politics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface: Two River of Reform
vii
Ira Shor
Foreword: My Journey as a Critical Teacher: Creating Schools as Laboratories for Social Justice
xi
Bob Peterson
Multiculturalism, Social, Justice, and Critical Teaching
1
32
sonia Nieto
Life After Death: Critical Pedagogy in an Urban Community
33
20
J. Alleyne Johnson
Empowerment Education: Freire's Ideas Adapted to Health Education
53
19
Nina Wallerstein
Edward Bernstein
A Gay-Themed Lesson in an Ethic Literature Curriculum: Tenth Graders' Responses to ``dear Anita''
72
28
Steven Z. Athanases
Discovering Columbus: Rereading the Past
100
10
William Bigelow
Columbus, A Here? Rethinking Columbus in an Elementary Classroom
110
18
Maria Sweeney
Appendix A: Pupils' Script on Workers Is Ruled Out
120
2
Evelyn Nieves
Appendix B: Banned in Jersey, Welcomed on Broadway
122
6
Stan Karp
Beyond Thanksgiving: Teaching About Native Americans of New England
128
7
Rosemary Agoglia
On the Road to Cultural Bias: A Critique of The Oregon Trail CD-ROM
135
16
William Bigelow
What Happened to the Golden Door?
151
14
Linda Christensen
The Human Lives Behind the Labels: The Global Sweatshop, Nike, and the Race to the Bottom
165
13
William Bigelow
Tales from an Untracked Class
178
14
Linda Christensen
Teaching Math Across the Curriculum
192
8
Bob Peterson
Negotiating Mathematics
200
15
Susan Hyde
Chicanos Have Math in Their Blood: Pre-Columbian Mathematics
215
11
Luis Ortiz-Franco
Success and Mathematically Gifted Female Students: The Challenge Continues
226
13
Janice A. Leroux
Cheeying Ho
Literacy, Democracy, and the Pledge of Allegiance
239
9
David Bloome with
Rachel Bloomekatz
Petra Sander
Appendix A: Letter to Ira Short from Rachel Bloomekatz
245
1
Appendix B: Three Teachers' Responses
246
2
Activism with Young Children
248
11
Louise Derman-Sparks
About the Editors
259