Teaching to Change the World

Author Jeannie Oakes was the founding director of UCLA' s Center X--the institutional home of the university' s teacher education program--a program based on the research and principles that "Teaching To Change The World" represents. Oakes draws from her distinguished research career as a sociologist of education to integrate the components of educational foundations into a thematic and ideological whole. The result is a sustainable theory of education that positions new teachers to be highly competent in the classroom, lifelong education reformers, and education leaders and partners with students and families. Co-author Martin Lipton brings to this book 31 years of classroom experience and a parallel career as education writer and consultant. His photographs of the book' s featured teachers and their students reveal that social justice classrooms are both ordinary and inspired.Oakes, Jeannie is the author of 'Teaching to Change the World', published 2002 under ISBN 9780072407389 and ISBN 0072407387.