2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Across the globe, students are speaking up, walking out, and marching
for social and ecological justice. Despite deficit discourses about
students, youth are using their voice and agency to call forth a better
world. Will educators respond to this call to stand with students in
relational solidarity as co-constructors of a new tomorrow? What is
possible when teachers and students engage together in new ways?
Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency offers
insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted
as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their
experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance.
It asserts that students are both capable and competent. Taking a
narrative approach, this book honors academic work that is rooted in
educational practice. Expanding beyond traditional conceptions of
student voice, chapters engage in meditations on three themes: identity,
pedagogy, and partnership. This book is an exploration of with-ness, a
way of knowing, being, and acting. By centralizing the all-too-often
suppressed wisdom of youth, teachers and researchers engage in new forms
of critique and possibility-making with students. Editors reflect on
this central theme, exploring the dimensions of such pedagogies of
with-ness. Through this book, teachers are invited to imagine pedagogy
under this new framework, actively committed to students, their voice,
and mutual engagement.
Click HERE to watch the Pedagogies of With-ness book discussion.
Perfect for courses such as:
Social Foundations Student-Teacher Partnerships Secondary Methods
Service Learning Leadership Ethnic Studies Democracy and Civics Social
Justice and Education Student Voice in Classrooms/Education Ethical
Issues in Education Leadership for Social Justice
