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by Michael L. Boucher Jr (Author)
Division and acrimony have reached new heights that demand far-reaching structural solutions for White teachers committed to creating classrooms where all students thrive. The second edition of this inciteful and motivating book explores the Caring Solidarity framework with new, updated examples and, aspirational, descriptive guides for teachers and researchers. Plus, there are extensive revisions based on newly available research. This new edition includes new chapters on solidarity in the digital age and how to be in solidarity with communities when districts across the country are banning books and working to erase the identities of our students.
Author Biography
Michael Boucher in an assistant professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas A&M University - San Antonio. He completed his Ph.D. in 2013 in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in urban education from Indiana University. As a successful urban public school teacher, Michael taught social studies, served as department chair, and coordinated programs. He has taught middle school, high school, online courses, adult diploma, GED, and instructional methods. As a teacher-leader, Michael advocated for his students every day at school, but also in the press, the district, and the statehouse. Michael's research examines the relationships of solidarity developed between successful White teachers and their students of color in de-facto segregated schools and explores researcher's responsibility to work in solidarity with participants during ethnographic research. Michael studies the interplay between race, power, and curriculum through his varied work exploring the racialization of historical understanding, the impact on White teacher candidates of student teaching experiences abroad, and a cultural studies critique of Ruby Payne's, "Framework."
