A Language of Freedom and Teachers Authority

Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States

With Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak, Sharon Gorman Prologue by Peter McLaren Chapman University Foreword by Corinne Glesne Contributions by Hasan Hüseyin Aksoy, Birol Algan, Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak, Ebru Eren Deniz, Jean Ann Foley, Anaheed Hill, Damien Jones, Christopher Lanternman, Christine K. Lemley, Adam Lockwood, Jim Manley, Gretchen McAllister, Fatma Mizikaci, Ishmael I. Munene, Michelle Novelli, Mustafa Öztürk, Frances Julia Reimer, Karen Sealander, Guy Senese Northern Arizona University, Mustafa Sever, Brian Andrew Stone, Laura E. Sujo-Montes, Pelin Taskin, Ayhan Ural, Barbara Torre Veltri, Joseph C. Wegwert, Gerald Wood Northern Arizona University Edited by Fatma Mizikaci, Guy Senese Northern Arizona University

Hardback - £110.00

Publication date:

30 May 2017

Length of book:

322 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

237x161mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498524650

A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under new pressures due to changes in the relationship between public schooling and current reforms in education. The contributors reflect on varied dimensions of authority, of which ideals are shifting under political and economic pressures. In both Turkey and the U.S, public education reflects the early influence of secular equalitarianism, revolutionary democratic developments, and an Enlightenment-based sense of the human right to education. Against this, we see the opposing dialectic where state control and curricular censorship and constriction appear too often.
Comingtogether for what may seem an unlikely collaboration of scholars fromTurkey and the United States, each of these teachers of conscience (hocam)grapple with authentic inquiry into forms of teacher authority to groundeffective and sustained struggle for freedom. They work within andagainst the naked instrumentalism of global neoliberalism that seeks toannihilate citizen agency as it transforms all levels of schooling intopreparation for a new world order of alternative facts, exponentialeconomic exploitation, and unfettered ravaging of the planet. As these progressive colleagues bearwitness, the fire of their passion and the courage of their action inspirea profound sense of urgency that compels readers to take new action.