Throwing Voices: Five Autoethnographies on Postradical Education and the Fine Art of Misdirection

"This book is a search for the promises of public education and the places where these are broken by critics, including himself, feeding at the academic and professional trough. A venture in critical autoethnography, using mixed methods in critical history, participatory ethnography, surrealism, critical theory, and hermeneutic ventriloquism, it explores stories that work to illuminate the personal nature of educational ethics." "Guy Senese sold cars 1 year and writes about the intersection between values in education and in this pinnacle of American commerce. Here also is a chronicle of time spent as evaluator in a small Native American school, with an effort to draw attention to the world of social class, yet catalogue his own complicity in the evaluation game." "All stories follow the breadcrumbs back through a confusing career-long search to find the elusive source of institutional compassion for working-class people and their children, and potential solidarity through a clearer more honest language than the language of higher education and administration."--BOOK JACKET.Senese, Guy B. is the author of 'Throwing Voices: Five Autoethnographies on Postradical Education and the Fine Art of Misdirection', published 2007 under ISBN 9781593118280 and ISBN 1593118287.