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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 5, 2007
Community Development Journal 2007 42(4):530-533; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm044
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Teaching Defiance: Stories and Strategies for Activist Educators

Astrid Von Kotze

email: vonkotze@ukzn.ac.za

Michael Newman , Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2006, 295 , pp. ISBN-10 0787985562, $35

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A barely hidden smile playing around his lips, eyebrows dancing, he went along the line of students nudging them gently and indulgently suggesting complicity, until they admitted, yes, they did actually enjoy moments of exercising power, even power over others. The trouble was so often this kind of power seemed to be in the hands of the wrong people and became oppressive. They laughed together about what seemed like an acknowledgement of human frailty and then he gave an input similar to the one described in Teaching Defiance in which students learned about power and control, ideology and counter-hegemonic action. Mike Newman in action as a teacher is inspiring because he models what he writes about, and reading Teaching Defiance is a little like watching him perform – as the sovereign story-teller he unravels the plot, theoretical treatises follow anecdotes, a dialogue in multiple voices interrupts an excursion to other . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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