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Every day, young people in our schools are misinformed or undereducated about issues of class and labor. The vast majority are taught an extremely conservative curriculum and in ways that do not honor working class experiences. A narrow education that ignores labor’s role in society fails miserably at opening honest discussion and will not inspire collective action or engaged citizenship. Every day that we as educators and unionists fail to challenge the anti-labor biases in our schools, we are complicit in limiting our students’ perspectives and their futures.
An increasing number of dedicated educators and unionists, working in different corners of the country, have begun to address the silence around labor education in schools with engaging projects that recall the intensive labor education and cultural programming of past generations of unionists.
The Education & Labor Collaborative was formed in part to encourage dialogue and collaboration among these groups working in diverse settings such as community colleges, teachers unions, teacher education programs, and independent educational organizations. (You can browse the work of these inspiring educators in the Collaborative Network section.) We believe that organized national and international movements are the next step to effecting change on a large scale.
Please read the Collaborative Goals in more detail and join us in this important work.
Save the Date!
Join the Uprising!
A Centennial Commemoration of the Uprising of the 20,000
Live Music—Film Screening—Discussion—Solidarity
Sunday, November 22, 2009
1:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
IBT Local 237 Union Hall
216 W. 14th St., New York, NY
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Contact
For more information, please contact:
Robert Linné
Associate Professor
p - 516.877.4411
e - linne@adelphi.edu
This page last modified on November 17, 2009.
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