Reminder: Teaching the Taboo: Rick Ayers and William Ayers at Moder... @ Sat Jan 29 7pm - 9pm (Queer Things)

more details » Teaching the Taboo: Rick Ayers and William Ayers at Modern Times On Saturday, January 29th, Rick Ayers and Bill Ayers will be speaking and signing books at Modern Times bookstore, 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, at 7:00 PM. This is the first book tour appearance for their newly published TEACHING THE TABOO: COURAGE AND IMAGINATION IN THE CLASSROOM, a provocative and highly acclaimed collection of essays by these two activists who have dedicated their lives to teaching and the struggle to improve education for all children. In this volume, the Ayers brothers share classroom stories and struggles – they invite readers to question the basic assumptions and unexamined truths they hold about the purposes, aims, and potential of schooling, young children, and the profession of teaching. They argue that education should not be about tests, competition, and supporting the status quo but of opening doors, expanding minds, and handing power over to students as they engage in the world. In the foreword, Haki Madhubuti, the renowned poet, essayist, and civil rights activist, writes, "If given the chance, this book can be a defining text not only for those in the profession of education, but also for parents and lay readers nationwide who are truly concerned about our children and our future." Advance Praise for Teaching the Taboo "Drawing from a lifetime of deep thinking about education and courageous commitment to precious students, Rick and William Ayers have given us a marvelous book. Their devastating critique of the pervasive market models in education and their powerful defense of democratic forms of imagination in schools are so badly needed in our present-day crisis!" — Cornel West, Princeton University "Teaching the Taboo is provocative, challenging, funny in places, wild but sensible enough to be useful, inspiring, and practical for educators who are working to negate the educational madness that is infecting the schools." — Herb Kohl, author of 36 Children and Painting Chinese. Rick Ayers is an adjunct professor in Teacher Education at University of San Francisco and Mills College and founder of the Communication Arts and Sciences small school at Berkeley High School. He is a regular education blog writer for Huffington Post. William Ayers is a school reform activist, distinguished professor, and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is currently the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association. Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom Rick Ayers and William Ayers Teachers College Press 144 pp./ PB $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8077-5152-7 http://store.tcpress.com/0807751529.shtml for more information on Modern Times Bookstore, call (415) 282-9246 When Sat Jan 29 7pm – 9pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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