College Student Voices on Educational Reform

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: A “Conversation” and the Problem of Positioning

   • Brian S Collier, Maria K. McKenna, Kevin J. Burke

   Pages 1-28

3. An Editorial Intervention: Mushfaking

   • Kevin J. Burke, Brian S Collier, Maria K. McKenna

   Pages 29-32

4. Literacy: Fostering Lifelong Learning

   • David Berton Grau, Kathleen B. Mullins, Katherine A. Puszka, Kevin J. Burke

   Pages 33-52

5. Early Childhood Education

   • Kathleen Buehler, Kelsie Corriston, Emily Franz, Meredith Holland, Allison Marchesani, Maggie O’Brien et al.

   Pages 53-78

6. The School Environment: Common Purpose in Separate Spaces

   • Carly Anderson, Sarah Cole, Kevin De La Montaigne, Sheila Keefe, Mary Claire O’Donnell, Casey Quinlan et al.

   Pages 79-104

7. Pulling Ideas Apart: Complicating the Questions

   • Maria K. McKenna, Brian S Collier, Kevin Burke, Jessica Millen

   Pages 105-125

8. Back Matter

   Pages 126-130

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This text critically addresses, through college student voices, the American school reform movement in its rhetoric, policy, and practice. It demonstrates how university courses can be designed to treat students as engaged citizens and contextualizes students' voices in the private university and the public sphere.

• reform
• education reform
• education policy
• higher education
• university
• course design
• civic engagement
• teacher
• teachers
• critical university studies
• pedagogy
• childhood
• Design
• environment
• learning
• lifelong learning
• literacy
• school

"This book is a hopeful enterprise, but not at all romantic, for it paints a picture of what teaching looks like - to use the authors' own words, in all its 'emergent, unfinished, unpolished' glory. The authors conclude by arguing that, above all else, our students need our honesty about education reform. And that is exactly what they offer their readers." - Suzanne Wilson, University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University, USA

All contributors were students in an Education, Schooling, and Society course team-taught by McKenna, Collier, and Burke in 2011-2012 at the University of Notre Dame. David Berton Grau Kathleen B. Mullins Katherine A. Puszka Kathleen Buehler Kelsie Corriston Emily Franz Meredith Holland Allison Marchesani Maggie O'Brien Carly Anderson Sarah Cole Kevin De La Montaigne Sheila Keefe Mary Claire O'Donnell Casey Quinlan Mary Clare Rigali Michael Savage

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