Rebellious Education
Joyful Teaching as Resistance in the American South and Appalachia
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Featuring accounts of P-12 educators, Rebellious Education: Joyful Teaching as Resistance in the American South and Appalachia offers a rebellious counter-narrative to the modern tale that teaching is a profession void of joy. Like the teaching profession itself, the American South and Appalachia are areas with juxtaposed narratives, both romanticized and villainized in popular culture. In this book, teachers in Southern and Appalachian spaces reveal their experiences of enacting their practice in challenging situations, but this is balanced with purposeful pedagogies and powerful accounts of teaching as an act of joyful resistance, pushing back against the stereotypes and false narratives currently plaguing the profession.
This book is written for educators to provide a collection of accounts that offer hope and resilience to those working to make our schools better places in geographic locations that often experience lower pay and less support. The book also serves as a tool to help motivate and sustain beginning and veteran teachers alike; it provides a community of voices against the ever-present message that teaching is not a profession worth pursuing.
Chapter 1. Building Lifelong Connections; Jacqueline Daniel
- Chapter 2. Outcries of the Silent Voices: A Resistance Against “Bless your Heart”; Allison Jones
- Chapter 3. What Got Me Through: The Importance of Mentoring and Affinity Groups for Teacher Educators of Color; Brandon J. Beck
- Chapter 4. Why I have Chosen to Remain an Educator; Carlos J. Minor
- Chapter 5. Community and Career Connected Learning: Creating an Ecosystem of Belonging in Appalachia; Allison Ricket, Jacqueline Yahn, and Tasha Werry
- Chapter 6. Loving Coalitions: Teaching and Forming Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Community in the Classroom; Carrie Hart
- Chapter 7. To Dare Mighty Things: Student-Led Communities of Learning — A Reflection on Empowered Voices and Their Transformative Power; Peter Locher
- Chapter 8. My Joyous Teaching Journey; Nathan Herndon
- Chapter 9. Quiet Rebellion in an AP English Classroom; Allison Thompson
- Chapter 10. Establishing Connection Through Collaborative Studio Making: Working Alongside Students as an Artist; Morgan B. Clifton and Victoria Goeckel
- Chapter 11. Make Social Studies Fun Again: Finding the Joy in Developing Enriching Social Studies Curriculum; Ashley Wright
- Chapter 12. Persistence Through Authenticity: The Case of Two Teachers from Southwest Appalachia; Carrie Rogers
- Chapter 13. Surrender the ME for the WE: Joyful Collaboration; Jordan Henry
- Chapter 14. The Stories That Bind US; Jennifer Fox
- Chapter 15. Pursuing Their Purpose: Oklahoma Educators Teaching What They Believe to Be Right in Contentious Time; Erin Bronstein and Don C. Murray
- Chapter 16. We Probably Have It Better Than You Think: Musings of a Teacher-Rocker; David Prince
Adam W. Jordan is an Associate Professor of Special Education at the College of Charleston, USA, where he also currently serves as the director of Special Education programs and as the Associate Chair of the Department of Teacher Education.
Todd S. Hawley is a Professor of Social Studies Teacher Education and Coordinator for Social Studies Education at Kent State University, USA.
Sonya Wisdom is Professor of Science Education at Kent State University, USA.
Tracey Hunter-Doniger is a Professor and the Department Chair of Teacher Education at the College of Charleston, USA.