Organizing the curriculum : : perspectives on teaching the us labor movement / / Rob Linné & Leigh Benin & Adrienne Sosin.

• VerfasserIn: Linné, Rob,; Sosin, Adrienne,; Benin, Leigh David,
• TeilnehmendeR: Sosin, Adrienne,; Benin, Leigh David,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Contemporary American youth live in a culture that ignores or denigrates labor unions. Mainstream media cover labor issues only sparingly and unions no longer play much of a role in popular culture texts, films, or images. In our schools labor has been limited to a footnote in textbooks instead of being treated seriously as the most effective force for championing the rights of working people—the vast majority of the citizenry. Teachers have been convinced that to bring up class or to teach about the labor movement may be construed as “taking sides,” while the all-pervasive presence of corporate America in our schools is rarely questioned. So for all the talk of schools preparing young people for the work world, we are failing to teach them even the basics of how that world is structured or how they can be empowered through collective action. Organizing the Curriculum: Perspectives on Teaching the US Labor Movement is the first book-length treatment of this blind spot in contemporary curriculum and pedagogy. Contributors to this collection—unionists, activists, teachers, teacher educators, and academics—interrogate the ways in which knowledge is constructed in school discourses, conceptualize pedagogical strategies and curricula that open discussions around class analysis and political economy via studies of the labor movement, and put forward an activist vision of education that truly engages young people beyond the classroom walls.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Rob Linné , Leigh Benin and Adrienne Sosin -- On Consumerism and Labor Consciousness / Leigh David Benin -- Labor’s Exclusion from Official Knowledge / Rob Linné -- A Letter to Family and Friends from the Labor Front / Courtney Snegroff and Leigh David Benin -- Teacher Solidarity for Educational Excellence / Leigh David Benin and Adrienne Andi Sosin -- A Paradigm Shift in the Making for Teachers of Working-Class Students / Patrick J. Finn -- Teaching What Unions Do / Adrienne Andi Sosin , Joel Sosinsky , Cindy Impala and Karin Jones -- An Essay On Racism, War, and Labor’s Struggle / Leigh David Benin -- Mining Mathematics Education for Labor History / Peter Appelbaum and Bob Klein -- Uncovering History through Biography and Personal Narrative / Laraine Wallowitz and Nicole Sieben -- Using Educational Technology to Teach Students About Child Labor / Laura Benin -- Lewis Hine and His Photo Stories / Deborah L. Smith-Shank and Kryssi Staikidis -- Reading the Labor Movement / Adrienne Andi Sosin , Miriam Pepper-Sanello , Susan Eichenholtz , Lucia Buttaro and Renee White-Clark -- From The Bobbin Girl to The Breaker Boys / Patricia A. Deleo -- Horton, Highlander, and the Habituation of Democracy / J. Cynthia McDermott and Peter Hoffmann-Kipp -- SEIU Local 32 BJ’s Youth Brigade / Stuart Eimer and Max Mishler -- Every Labor Leader’s Second Favorite Topic: / Fred Glass -- Grassroots Organizing and Teacher Education / Mary E. Finn -- Where do we go from here? / Adrienne Andi Sosin -- Contributor Profiles and Contacts / Rob Linné , Leigh Benin and Adrienne Sosin.