Hope and healing in urban education : how urban activists and teachers are reclaiming matters of the heart /
Ginwright, Shawn A.
Hope and healing in urban education : how urban activists and teachers are reclaiming matters of the heart / Shawn Ginwright. - viii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Transforming trauma into hope and power -- Building the courage to hope among young men -- Creating a healing zone in San Francisco -- Radically healing schools and communities: healing-centered pedagogy and forgiveness -- Healing with street love -- La cutura cura : how culture cures and builds activism -- Ubuntuism: concluding notes on recreating self, society, and change.
"[This book] proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by the erosion of hope resulting from structural violence in urban communities. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from around the country, this book chronicles how teacher activists employ healing strategies in stressed schools and community organizations, and work to reverse negative impacts on academic achievement and civic engagement, supporting their students to become powerful civic actors."--Back cover.
9781138797574 113879757X
2015006417
Education, Urban--United States
Minorities--Education--United States
Children with social disabilities--Education--United States
LC5131 / .G48 2016
370.9173/2
Hope and healing in urban education : how urban activists and teachers are reclaiming matters of the heart / Shawn Ginwright. - viii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Transforming trauma into hope and power -- Building the courage to hope among young men -- Creating a healing zone in San Francisco -- Radically healing schools and communities: healing-centered pedagogy and forgiveness -- Healing with street love -- La cutura cura : how culture cures and builds activism -- Ubuntuism: concluding notes on recreating self, society, and change.
"[This book] proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by the erosion of hope resulting from structural violence in urban communities. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from around the country, this book chronicles how teacher activists employ healing strategies in stressed schools and community organizations, and work to reverse negative impacts on academic achievement and civic engagement, supporting their students to become powerful civic actors."--Back cover.
9781138797574 113879757X
2015006417
Education, Urban--United States
Minorities--Education--United States
Children with social disabilities--Education--United States
LC5131 / .G48 2016
370.9173/2