ABSTRACT

This book is a collection of six case studies of teacher agency in action, centering on voices of educators who engaged in activist work throughout the history of education in the US. Through a lens of teacher agency and resistance, chapter authors explore the stories of individual educators to determine how particular historical and cultural contexts contributed to these educators’ activist efforts. By analyzing specific modes and methods of resistance found within diverse communities throughout the last century of US education, this book helps to identify and place into theoretical and historical context an underemphasized narrative of professional teacher-activists within American education.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part 1|30 pages

Teacher Agency and Resistance, Theorized

chapter 1|13 pages

Teachers, Power, and Agency

chapter 2|15 pages

Resistance as a Methodology

A Counterhegemonic Movement for Praxis in Education

part 2|113 pages

Historical and Contemporary Case Studies of Teacher Agency and Resistance in Action

chapter 3|25 pages

“There’s a Lot to Know, and We’ll Learn It Together”

Emancipatory Teaching and Learning at Harlem Preparatory School, 1967–1974

chapter 4|17 pages

The Formidable

Chinatown Enclave Educators’ Agency and Resistance

chapter 5|19 pages

Agency Within Constraints

The Professional Preparation and Work of Southern Black Educators, 1945–1970

chapter 6|17 pages

Reaching Beyond the Classroom

Women Teachers in the Early 20th Century

chapter 8|16 pages

Community Teaching as Agency