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    We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
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    We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
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    We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

    Written by Bettina Love

    Narrated by Misty Monroe

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    About this audiobook

    Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.

    Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex.

    To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom — not merely reform — teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 19, 2019
    ISBN9780807081105
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    We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

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