Middlebury

EDST 1008

Educ Change/Teacher's Strike

Educational Change and Teachers Strike
From West Virginia to Chicago, teachers – the country’s largest sector of unionized workers – are striking. What are strikes and why do teachers use them? What do they mean for schools and communities? In this course we will examine teachers’ strikes as a way to understand the collisions of race, class, gender, and the state in education. Focusing on episodes of intense friction and controversy, this course will chart liberal, radical, and conservative tendencies in labor and educational history. Using theoretical, historical and contemporary texts about the politics of labor and education, students will critically examine the possibilities and limits for teachers’ organizing.
Subject:
Education Studies
Department:
Education Studies
Division:
Social Sciences
Requirements Fulfilled:
AMR NOR SOC WTR

Sections

Winter 2021

EDST1008A-W21 Lecture (Schirmer)

Winter 2020

EDST1008A-W20 Lecture (Schirmer)

Winter 2019

EDST1008A-W19 Lecture (Schirmer)