Jay Gillen

The Power in the Room

Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

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How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a strong economic and political foundation on which to build radical public education.Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen describes the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) as a youth-run cooperative enterprise in which young people direct their peers' and their own learning for a wage. BAP and similar enterprises are creating an educational network of empowered, employed students.Gillen argues that this is a proactive political, economic, and educational structure that builds… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8070-6470-2
EAN: 9780807064702
Produktnummer: 29583765
Verlag: Beacon Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 753 KB

Über den Autor

Jay Gillen has taught and organized in and around Baltimore City Public Schools since 1987. In 1994, after a 2-year organizing campaign, he became teacher-director of the new Stadium Middle School, the first community-controlled public school in Baltimore in many years. Working with graduates of the Stadium School, Gillen developed the peer-tutoring Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP). He currently teaches in a juvenile detention center for young women and is helping to develop a peer-to-peer youth enterprise incubator. Gillen is the author of numerous articles and the book Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty.