Unsettling Education: Searching for Ethical Footing in a Time of Reform - Paperback

by Brian Charest (Editor), Kate Sjostrom (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

Brian Charest, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Redlands. He has presented locally and nationally and published articles on teaching, equity, civic engagement, community organizing, social justice, ethics, and radical pragmatism.

Kate Sjostrom, PhD, is a lecturer and assistant director of English education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on writing teacher identity development in the context of education reforms, as well as on the potential for teacher-writing to build teachers' advocacy.