Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy Engaging Students in Glocal Issues Through the Arts, Revised Edition

"Engaged. Inspired. Empowered. Agentic. What we wish for our students is exactly what this visionary revised edition of Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy offers its readers. Regardless of what or where you teach, this timely book will invite you to visualize yourself, your work, and your classroom as a site of creativity, imagination, and social power. Indeed, this book's wonderful portraits of well-grounded activist work with children and youth are needed now more than ever."-Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University, Monterey Bay

Barbara Beyerbach, Ph.D., is a professor at SUNY at Oswego. She also serves as a co-director of Project SMART, a teacher professional development program aimed at creating urban/rural partnerships in K–16. Beyerbach is co-editor (with R. Deborah Davis) of “How Do We Know They Know?”: A Conversation About Pre-Service Teachers Learning About Culture and Social Justice (2009).
R. Deborah Davis, Ph.D., is a professor emerita at SUNY at Oswego and a co-director of the Teacher Opportunity Grant. Davis is the author of Black Students’ Perceptions: Persistence to Graduation in an American University (2007).
Tania Ramalho, Ph.D., a Brazilian American, is professor at SUNY at Oswego. She teaches critical literacy and pedagogy in the Curriculum and Instruction Department. She serves as a board member of the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, associated with the University of London’s Institute of Education and the London Development Center.