Language of Freedom and Teacher's Authority

This collection combines the perspectives of Turkish and U.S. teacher educators regarding autonomy in the teacher’s profession. With methodologically diverse research approaches, it depicts changing conditions in Turkey and in the U.S. from the unique perspective of professional communities creating an international network of study and writing.

Fatma Mizikaci is associate professor at the faculty of educational sciences at Ankara University. Guy Senese is professor in foundations of education in the Department of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University.

Contents Foreword Corrine Glesne Editors' Preface: Public Education, the Social Contract and a Teacher's Conscience Fatma Mizikaci and Guy Senese Acknowledgments Introduction Fatma Mizikaci 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 Karakas 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 Taskin 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