A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under new pressures due to changes in the relationship between public schooling and current reforms in education. The contributors reflect on varied dimensions of authority, of which ideals are shifting under political and economic pressures. In both Turkey and the U.S, public education reflects the early influence of secular equalitarianism, revolutionary democratic developments, and an Enlightenment-based sense of the human right to education. Against this, we see the opposing dialectic where state control and curricular censorship and constriction appear too often.

Foreword by: Corinne Glesne
Prologue by: Peter McLaren
Contributions by: Hasan Hüseyin Aksoy, Birol Algan, Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak, Ebru Eren Deniz, Jean Ann Foley, Anaheed Hill, Damien Jones, Christopher Lanternman, Christine K. Lemley, Adam Lockwood, Jim Manley, Gretchen McAllister, Fatma Mizikaci, Ishmael I. Munene, Michelle Novelli, Mustafa Öztürk, Frances Julia Reimer, Karen Sealander, Guy Senese, Mustafa Sever, Brian Andrew Stone, Laura E. Sujo-Montes, Pelin Taskin, Ayhan Ural, Barbara Torre Veltri, Joseph C. Wegwert, Gerald Wood