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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Informational works Documents d'information |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Love, Bettina L., 1979- author. We want to do more than survive Boston : Beacon Press, [2019] (DLC) 2018038260 (OCoLC)1041767525 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bettina L Love |
ISBN: | 0807069167 9780807069165 |
OCLC Number: | 1057731083 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2021. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | "We who are dark" -- Educational survival -- Mattering -- Grit, zest, and racism (The Hunger Games) -- Abolitionist teaching, freedom dreaming, and Black joy -- Theory over gimmicks : finding your North Star -- We gon' be alright, but that ain't alright. |
Responsibility: | Bettina L. Love. |
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Abstract:
"Drawing 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."--
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