Anti-Oppressive Education in "Elite" Schools: Promising Practices and Cautionary Tales From the Field

Contents

Acknowledgments?xi

Introduction: One Way to Make Change? ?1
Katy Swalwell

PART I: WHAT?S THE POINT? JUSTIFYING AND FRAMING ANTI-OPPRESSIVE EDUCATION IN ?ELITE? SCHOOLS?13

1.??Combating the Pathology of Class Privilege: A Critical Education for the Elites?15
Quentin Wheeler-Bell

2.??Intrinsic Aspects of Class Privilege?27
Adam Howard

3.??Is Becoming an Oppressor Ever a Privilege? ?Elite? Schools and Social Justice as Mutual Aid?39
Nicolas Tanchuk, Tomas Rocha, and Marc Kruse

PART II: CAUTIONARY TALES: PROBLEMATIC MODELS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION IN ?ELITE? SCHOOLS?51

4.??Beyond Wokeness: How White Educators Can Work Toward Dismantling Whiteness and White Supremacy in Suburban Schools?53
Gabriel Rodriguez

5.??Dead Ends and Paths Forward: White Teachers Committed to Anti-Racist Teaching in White Spaces?63
Petra Lange and Callie Kane

6.??Unspoken Rules, White Communication Styles, and White Blinders: Why ?Elite? Independent Schools Can?t Retain Black and Brown Faculty?73
Ayo Magwood

7.??Critical Service Learning: Moving from Transactional Experiences of Service Toward a Social Justice Praxis?85
Tania D. Mitchell

8.??The ?Duality of Life? in ?Elite? Sustainability Education: Tensions, Pitfalls, and Possibilities?97
Kristin Sinclair, Ashley Akerberg, and Brady Wheatley

9.??The Possibility of Critical Language Awareness Through Volunteer English Teaching Abroad?109
Cori Jakubiak

PART III: PROMISING PRACTICES? IDEAS FOR ENACTING ANTI-OPPRESSIVE EDUCATION IN ?ELITE? SCHOOLS?121

10.??Living Up to Our Legacy: One School?s Effort to Build Momentum, Capacity, and Commitment to Social Justice?123
Christiane M. Connors, Steven Lee, Stacy Smith, and Damian R. Jones

11.??Facilitating Socially Just Discussions in Elite Schools?135
Lisa Sibbett

12.??Mobilizing Privileged Youth and Teachers for Justice-Oriented Work in Science and Education?147
Alexa Schindel, Brandon Grossman, and Sara Tolbert

13.??Opening the Proverbial Can O? Worms: Teaching Social Justice to Educated Elites in Suburban Detroit?159
Robin Moten

14.??Intersectional Feminist and Political Education with Privileged Girls?169
Beth Cooper Benjamin, Amira Proweller, Beth Catlett, Andrea Jacobs, and Sonya Crabtree-Nelson

15.???Not Me!? Anticipating, Preventing, and Working with Pushback to Social Justice Education?181
Diane Goodman and Rebecca Drago

PART IV: CONVERSATIONS WITH COLLEAGUES?193

16.??Out of This Chaos, Beauty Comes: Democratic Schooling in a Progressive Independent Middle School?195
Allen Cross

17.??We Are Afraid They Won?t Feel Bad: Using Simulations to Teach for Social Justice at the Elementary Level?201
Gabby Arca and Nina Sethi

18.??Harnessing the Curiosity of Rich People?s Children: International Travel as a Tool of Anti-Oppressive Education?207
Alethea Tyner Paradis

19.??Building a Class: The Role of Admissions in Anti-Oppressive Education?213
Sherry Smith

20.???It Shouldn?t Be that Hard?: Student Activists? Frustrations and Demands?219
Julia Chen, Haley Hamilton, Vidya Iyer, Alfreda Jarue, Catalina Samaniego, Catreena Wang, and Jenna Woodsmall

Afterword?229
Paul Gorski

About the Editors and Contributors?235

Index?243