Beschreibung:
Rooted in the initial struggle of community members who staged a successful hunger strike to secure a high school in their Chicago neighborhood, David Omotoso Stovall's Born Out of Struggle focuses on his first-hand participation in the process to help design the school. Offering important lessons about how to remain accountable to communities while designing a curriculum with a social justice agenda, Stovall explores the use of critical race theory to encourage its practitioners to spend less time with abstract theories and engage more with communities that make a concerted effort to change their conditions. Stovall provides concrete examples of how to navigate the constraints of working with centralized bureaucracies in education and apply them to real-world situations.
Foreword Patricia Maria Buenrostro and Carolina Gaete Acknowledgments Introduction Responsibility to the Word: Into the Work of Putting Our Theories to Practice 1. Hunger Strike: History, Community Struggle, and Political Gamesmanship 2. To Create a School: Uneasy Partnerships with the Central Office 3. Counterstory as Praxis: Confronting Success and Failure on the Design Team 4. Paper Proposals Do Not Equal Real Life: Race Praxis and High School Creation 5. Educational Debt Relief: Classroom Struggles, Critical Race Praxis, and the Politics of School 6. Struggle, Failure, and Reflection in the First Cycle (2003-2009): Practical Lessons in Creating a School 7. Always on the Run: School Struggle in Perpetuity Epilogue Glossary of Acronyms Bibliography Index