Organized: an exploration of teachers' engagement in grassroots organizing

Author(s)Morrison, Dana
Date Accessioned2019-05-31T11:38:53Z
Date Available2019-05-31T11:38:53Z
Publication Date2018
SWORD Update2019-02-14T20:07:18Z
AbstractThis multi-method qualitative study explored why, how, and in what contexts a group of Philadelphia teachers engaged in grassroots organizing (McAlevey, 2016). At a time when educators across the country are increasingly participating in bottom-up, grassroots movements seeking more democratic visions of education reform, this critically bifocal (Weis & Fine, 2012) project situated the motivations and activities of these teacher-organizers within the larger neoliberal context of the city and school district of Philadelphia. Drawing on narrative inquiry (Chase, 2005; Connely & Clandinin, 1990), critical place inquiry (Massey, 1993; Massey, 1994) and ethnography (Vargas, 2008), this dissertation provides insight into the understandings and experiences of the teachers as well as the tangible means by which they engaged in grassroots organizing in the challenging environment of Philadelphia. ☐ More specifically, teachers of this inquiry were found to be embodying the two key elements of Freire’s (1970) definition of praxis, “reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it” (p. 70, emphasis added). Pairing activities centered on learning and reflection (e.g. book groups) with activities centered on taking action and seeking change (e.g. policy campaigns), the dual elements of praxis played an essential role in actualizing McAlevey’s (2016) model of grassroots organizing within the teachers’ work.en_US
AdvisorDow, Rosalie Rolón
DegreePh.D.
DepartmentUniversity of Delaware, School of Education
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.58088/b07d-cv16
Unique Identifier1102781641
URLhttp://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/24212
Languageen
PublisherUniversity of Delawareen_US
URIhttps://search.proquest.com/docview/2191678857?accountid=10457
TitleOrganized: an exploration of teachers' engagement in grassroots organizingen_US
TypeThesisen_US
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