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 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 Mızıkacı, Ishmael I. Munene, Michelle Novelli, Mustafa Öztürk, Frances Julia Reimer, Karen Sealander, Guy Senese, Mustafa Sever, Brian Andrew Stone, Laura E. Sujo-Montes, Pelin Taşkın, Ayhan Ural, Barbara Torre Veltri, Joseph C. Wegwert, Gerald Wood Edited by Fatma Mızıkacı, Guy Senese

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Publication date:

30 May 2017

Length of book:

322 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498524667

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.

Contents

Foreword
Corrine Glesne

Editors’ Preface: Public Education, the Social Contract and a Teacher’s Conscience
Fatma Mızıkacı and Guy Senese

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Fatma Mızıkacı and Guy Senese

Prologue
Peter McLaren

Part One
Power, Authority and Authoritarianism in a Neoliberal Era

Chapter 1: Room 5: The Teacher’s Authority: Conscience and the Challenge to Educate
Guy Senese

Chapter 2: Being a Teacher in Turkey: Formation, Shift, Disintegration and Resistance
Ayhan Ural; Translated by Dilara Clarkson

Chapter 3: Authority and Power in the Classroom
Mustafa Sever and Birol Algan

Chapter 4: Colleges of Education and the Making of the Neoliberal University
Joseph C. Wegwert and Jean Ann Foley

Chapter 5: Exotic Pedagogy and the Critical Authority of Love
Jim Manley

Part Two
Undermined Authority and the Endangered Teacher-Intellectual

Chapter 6: Ideological Proletarianization of Teacher Educators in Turkey
Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak

Chapter 7: The Trouble with Technicians: False Standards and the Collapse of Teacher Autonomy
Brian Andrew Stone

Chapter 8: Teacher Authority, Autonomy and Authoritarianism in Turkish Vocational High School
Hasan Hüseyin Aksoy and Ebru Eren Deniz; Translated by Suna Karakaş

Chapter 9: Seek and Hide: Teach For America’s Strategies of Education Reform
Barbara Torre Veltri

Chapter 10: Reclaiming Academic Freedom and Shared Governance: Comparative Reflections from Kenya and USA
Ishmael Munene with Guy Senese

Part Three
Critical Impacts in Social Justice and Diversity

Chapter 11: Curriculum and State Control: The Case of Arizona’s Mexican-American Studies Program
Frances Julia Riemer
Chapter 12: A Tale of Teacher Induction in a Culturally Diverse Setting: Challenges in Southeastern TurkeyMustafa ÖztürkChapter 13: Fostering Indigenous Teacher Voice and Autonomy Gretchen McAllister with Damien Jones
Chapter 14: Indigenous Community Belief and Contested Dimensions of Student’s Rights and the Teacher’s Authority
Gerald K. Wood and Christine K. Lemley with Anaheed Hill
Chapter 15: Students’ Freedom and the Authority of Regulation: The Real and the Ideal
Pelin Taşkın
Chapter 16: Recovering Inclusion for Democracy and Special Education in an Era of Reform
Karen Sealander, Christopher Lanterman, Michelle Novelli, Laura Sujo-Montes and Adam Lockwood
Bibliography
About the Contributors

Can teachers save nations? Has democracy really slipped into the abyss in the teaching profession in Turkey and also in the United States? This courageous book, the brainchild of Mızıkacı and Senese, ushers a brave clarion call in essays for all of us who revere and respect the teaching profession, democratic academic process and the treasured ultimate outcome: enlightened, caring students. Truly a collection to ponder and use as a basis of action to calibrate the profession.