Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority

Fatma M¿z¿kac¿ 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.

A Language of Freedom and Teacher's Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under new pressures due to changes in the relationship between public schooling and current reforms in education. The contributors reflect on varied dimensions of authority, of which ideals are shifting under political and economic pressures. In both Turkey and the U.S, public education reflects the early influence of secular equalitarianism, revolutionary democratic developments, and an Enlightenment-based sense of the human right to education. Against this, we see the opposing dialectic where state control and curricular censorship and constriction appear too often.

ContentsForewordCorrine GlesneEditors' Preface: Public Education, the Social Contract and a Teacher's ConscienceFatma M¿z¿kac¿ and Guy SeneseAcknowledgmentsIntroductionFatma M¿z¿kac¿ and Guy SeneseProloguePeter McLarenPart OnePower, Authority and Authoritarianism in a Neoliberal EraChapter 1: Room 5: The Teacher's Authority: Conscience and the Challenge to EducateGuy SeneseChapter 2: Being a Teacher in Turkey: Formation, Shift, Disintegration and ResistanceAyhan Ural; Translated by Dilara ClarksonChapter 3: Authority and Power in the ClassroomMustafa Sever and Birol AlganChapter 4: Colleges of Education and the Making of the Neoliberal UniversityJoseph C. Wegwert and Jean Ann FoleyChapter 5: Exotic Pedagogy and the Critical Authority of LoveJim ManleyPart TwoUndermined Authority and the Endangered Teacher-IntellectualChapter 6: Ideological Proletarianization of Teacher Educators in TurkeyYasemin Tezgiden CakcakChapter 7: The Trouble with Technicians: False Standards and the Collapse of Teacher AutonomyBrian Andrew StoneChapter 8: Teacher Authority, Autonomy and Authoritarianism in Turkish Vocational High SchoolHasan Hüseyin Aksoy and Ebru Eren Deniz; Translated by Suna KarakäChapter 9: Seek and Hide: Teach For America's Strategies of Education ReformBarbara Torre VeltriChapter 10: Reclaiming Academic Freedom and Shared Governance: Comparative Reflections from Kenya and USAIshmael Munene with Guy SenesePart ThreeCritical Impacts in Social Justice and DiversityChapter 11: Curriculum and State Control: The Case of Arizona's Mexican-American Studies ProgramFrances Julia RiemerChapter 12: A Tale of Teacher Induction in a Culturally Diverse Setting: Challenges in Southeastern TurkeyMustafa ÖztürkChapter 13: Fostering Indigenous Teacher Voice and AutonomyGretchen McAllister with Damien JonesChapter 14: Indigenous Community Belief and Contested Dimensions of Student's Rights and the Teacher's AuthorityGerald K. Wood and Christine K. Lemley with Anaheed HillChapter 15: Students' Freedom and the Authority of Regulation: The Real and the IdealPelin Täk¿nChapter 16: Recovering Inclusion for Democracy and Special Education in an Era of ReformKaren Sealander, Christopher Lanterman, Michelle Novelli, Laura Sujo-Montes and Adam LockwoodBibliographyAbout the Contributors