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Unsettling Education: Searching for Ethical Footing in a Time of Reform shares stories of teachers resisting mandates to teach to the test in dehumanizing ways by de-commodifying educational spaces and enacting their ethical commitments to students and communities.
Review Quotes: "From the educational 'standards' being compelled onto students, to the rhetoric of educational 'reform' being sold to communities and educators alike, the problem is not merely the silencing of dissent but the presumption that there is no alternative. What better intervention than the call by Brian Charest, Kate Sjostrom, and colleagues for us all to engage in 'unsettling education.' All who teach and who care about teaching will find sources of inspiration and nourishment in the richly detailed and deeply thoughtful portraits of K-12 teachers and teaching that model for us what this can look like in times, like now, when pressure abounds to settle." --Kevin Kumashiro, Author of Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice