We Want to Do More Than Survive
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We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina Love
Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book AwardDrawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.
Drawing on her life's work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex.
To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom-not merely reform-teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
Bettina L.Love is an award-winning author and a University of Georgia associate professor of educational theory and practice. Her research focuses on how teachers and schools might establish communal, civically engaged, antiracist, antihomophobic, and antisexist educational, egalitarian classrooms in collaboration with parents and communities. Love has also contributed commentary for news sites such as NPR, the Guardian, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a variety of topics, including hip-hop education, Black girlhood, LGBT adolescent, hip-hop feminism, art-based education to inspire youth civic involvement, and issues of diversity.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807028346 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807028347 |
| Title | We Want to Do More Than Survive |
| Author | Bettina Love |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Year published | 2020-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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