Wayne Au, Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington-Bothell, joins us this episode to discuss the tensions present in the practice of multicultural and social justice education in the contemporary moment. Wayne’s scholarship and activism engages issues of critical education theory, race and class in schooling, and related educational policies, such as those policies that give rise to high-stakes testing and impact school curriculum. Wayne is an editor of the leading social justice publication Rethinking Schools and has authored or edited countless books and articles, including several that we discuss in this episode. Follow Wayne on Twitter @profwayneau.
Links to select works discussed:
A Pedagogy of Insurgency: Teaching and Organizing for Radical Racial Justice in Our Schools (2021) in Educational Studies
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2021.1878181
A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World (2018, Haymarket Books)
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1153-a-marxist-education
When Multicultural Education Is Not Enough (2017) in Multicultural Perspectives
https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2017.1331741
Teaching Under the New Taylorism: High‐Stakes Testing and the Standardization of the 21st Century Curriculum (2011) in Journal of Curriculum Studies
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2010.521261
Unequal by Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality (2009, Routledge)