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FOR TODAY’S POLITICS

Teaching Anti-Fascism: A Critical Multicultural Pedagogy for Civic Engagement

This timely book examines how fascist ideology has taken hold among certain segments of American society and how this can be addressed in curriculum and instruction. Vavrus presents middle, secondary, and college educators and their students with a conceptual framework for enacting a critical multicultural pedagogy by analyzing discriminatory discourse and recommending civic anti-fascist steps that teachers and students can take right now. For teacher education programs and policymakers, anti-fascist civic assessment rubrics are provided. To help clarify contemporary debates over what can be taught in public schools, an advance organizer highlights contested and misunderstood terminology.

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Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Teaching and Teacher Education

“The authors of Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Teaching and Teacher Education provide compelling profiles, persuasive arguments, and substantiating evidence that marginalized individuals and groups in the U.S. experience many different oppressions and exploitations simultaneously, or they routinely encounter multiple, interconnected, and inseparable marginalities.”
—From the Foreword by Geneva Gay, Professor of Education at the University of Washington- Seattle, and author of Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Practice, & Research

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Diversity and Education: A Critical Multicultural Approach

“Diversity and Education can not only help us have conversations about racism, institutionalized oppression, and cultural fear, it can also offer an intervention that can move readers towards a deeper critical consciousness about diversity and multicultural education in their own lives.”
—From the Foreword by Wayne Au, associate professor at the University of Washington- Bothell, and an editor for Rethinking Schools

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Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers: Theory, Research, and Practice

Recognizing the responsibility institutions have to prepare teachers for today’s diverse classrooms, Vavrus shows us how to incorporate transformative multicultural education into teacher education curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluation. Placing race, racism, anti-racism, and democracy at the center of his analyses and recommendations, this volume provides:

  • Concrete structural suggestions for including transformative multicultural education in higher education and K–12 in-service programs.
  • A multicultural critique of new NCATE accreditation standards for teacher education programs that offers re-conceptualized assessment procedures.
  • The historical roots of transformative multicultural education that incorporates issues of white privilege and racialized color-blindness, anti-racist pedagogy, racial identity among teachers, and “critical race theory.”
  • A discussion of globalization that emphasizes its contemporary economic effects on social and educational inequities.
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  • Fascism Is Happening and Bursting Democracy’s DamJuly 23, 2024
    Blog posted on Columbia University’s Teachers College Press site: https://www.tcpress.com/blog/fascism-happening-what-teachers/
  • Fascists Shed their Republican KKK Sheep’s Clothes – as directed by Stephen MillerJune 6, 2024
                Republicans are unhappy that a jury unanimously found their fascist leader guilty of 34 counts of fraud.  Stephen Miller, who served as a senior policy and speechwriter during Trump’s...
  • “Refuse Fascism” InterviewMay 30, 2023
    I was recently interviewed by RefuseFascism.org. Note: First 1 minute contains short clips from the full interview. Next, host Coco Das provides anti-fascist news and commentaries. At about 8 minutes...
  • A New Governing Regime: Far-Right ExtremismJuly 10, 2022
             It’s taking us far too long to recognize the ugly hand of fascism. Why, you may ask?  History demonstrates rising fascist politics from far-right movements become increasingly entrenched, operating...
  • Failed Coups & Far-Right Electoral PoliticsJune 20, 2022
    Adolph Hitler’s “behavior during imprisonment convinced the authorities that, like his political organization…he was no longer to be feared.  It is believed he will retire to private life and to...
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