ReStorying Education: Critical Perspectives in Public Education
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Thor Gibbins, SUNY Oneonta
Ed Beck, SUNY Oneonta
Kjersti VanSlyke-Briggs, SUNY Oneonta
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Last Update: 2025
Publisher: SUNY Oneonta
Language: English
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Table of Contents
- ReStorying Education in the United States
- The Cultural Narratives of Teachers
- Towards a Philosophy of Education
- Curriculum and the Purpose of Education
- ReStorying the History, Policies, and Places of Public Education
- What Do We Know: Assessment of Teaching and Learning
- Linguistic Diversity in U.S. Education
- From Slavery to the School to Prison Pipeline: A Call for Restorative Justice
- Making Good Trouble: Advocacy and Activism
- A Guiding Compass: Ethics for Educators
- What Can U.S. Educators and Schools Learn from Finland?
- About the Contributors
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ReStorying Education: Critical Perspectives in Public Education offers a foundational exploration of public education in the United States using different perspectives and critical analysis of education and educational policy. From showcasing how popular media creates narratives about teachers and school to a case study of the education system outside the United States, this text offers multiple viewpoints and purposes of education to give readers studying education a multi-faceted story of the social, political, and personal purposes of public education. Each chapter details a restorying of key aspects of education critical to developing a more nuanced understanding of public education: popular media narratives, historical, curricular, philosophical, and political.
About the Contributors
Editors
Thor Gibbins is an Associate Professor at SUNY Oneonta and co-director of the Leatherstocking Writing Project. He is an associate editor for Educational Media International. His primary research interests are in digital and critical media literacies and how digital media may be employed by students and educators for inquiry into issues regarding social, ecological, and economic justice. He earned his doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park. Before earning his doctorate, he was an adolescent literacy specialist and high school ELA teacher for the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, whose primary mission was to serve historically marginalized youth who have already dropped out of high school or were in the process of dropping out.
Ed Beck is an Instructional Designer at SUNY Oneonta. Some of his interests include the scaffolding of digital competencies across the curriculum, and the exploration, adoption, and creation of high quality open resources and tools. He is one of the co-founders of SUNY Create initiative that invites students to build a web presence using open source tools. He is co-editor of Chronicling a Crisis: SUNY Oneonta’s Pandemic Diaries. Past awards include the SUNY Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology Award for Excellence in Instructional Support and the Wells College President’s Award for Excellence.
Kjersti VanSlyke-Briggs is a Professor at SUNY Oneonta and is the chair of the Secondary Education and Educational Technology Department. She is a Past President of the New York State English Council and is a past editor of The English Record. Her primary research interests are in the intersection of literacy and social media as well as young adult literature. She is the co-editor of Dress Rehearsals for Gun Violence and A Relentless Threat – both collections examine school shootings in the United States. She was awarded her doctorate at Binghamton University. Her honors and awards include the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching.