Dignity-affirming education : cultivating the somebodiness of students and educators / edited by Decoteau J. Irby, Charity Anderson, and Charles M. Payne.
I Am, We Are Somebodies: An Introduction to the Idea of Dignity -- PART 1. IMAGINING AND ORGANIZING DIGNITY-AFFIRMING SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. The Radical Affirmation of Dignity: Septima Clark, Ella Baker, and Educating the Stigmatized -- Contradictions and the Dignity of Resistance: Truth and Reckoning at a Social Justice School -- Breathing Dignity into a Community College Success Course -- PART 2. DIGNITY-AFFIRMING EXPERIENCES. You're Gonna Get Respected, Listened To, and Your Opinion Will Be Respected: Dignity Affirmation in the Clemente Course in the Humanities -- Power Lifting: Being Somebody, Becoming Significant -- Teachers Don't Like Me Because You Have to Earn My Respect: Deference and Dignity in the Classroom -- The Protests Made Me Feel So Proud of Us: Racial Literacies and Bearing Witness to the Movement for Black Lives -- Subverting Invisibility: Connectivity as Dignity-Affirming Pedagogy -- PART 3. DIGNITY-AFFIRMING SOCIAL AND EDUCATION POLICY. Threaten to Close? Alternative Schools of Dignity, Recognition, and Transformation Under Constant Neoliberal Assault -- It's Powerful. There's Nothing Punitive About It; You're Just Listening: Restorative Justice as a Dignity-Affirming Practice -- Taking Pride in Our Languages, Taking Pride in Ourselves: Dual Language Education as Dignity-Affirming Spaces for Latinx Communities -- Conclusion: Centering Dignity.
Summary:
"The word "dignity" isn't typically used in education, yet it's at the core of strong pedagogy. Written by authors with wide-ranging expertise, this volume shows educators how to affirm students' dignity in their everyday practice. It is important reading for working with students of any age, including nontraditional or adult learners, in formal and informal settings"-- Provided by publisher.
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