"This book's focus is on taking action in the world and making students better-prepared citizens"--
" Based on the findings from a large, mixed-method study about discussions of political issues within high school classrooms, The Political Classroom presents in-depth and engaging cases of teacher practice.
Toni Morrison, one of America's greatest literary treasures, helps us understand how literary texts stand as primary source documents that are just as powerful as factual accounts in illuminating current events and social tensions.
Endorsements "This book makes it really clear that the secret to education is enrollment. Not butts in seats, but human beings, eager to go on a journey.
This seminal volume takes service-learning to a new level by demonstrating how it can meet its academic and community goals while developing student leaders.
While challenging the teacher as hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids is the closest thing to a superpower that we have. Cornelius identifies tools, attributes, and strategies that can augment our listening.
Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and ...
15 International Service‐Learning Guiding Theories and Practices for Social Justice Robbin D. Crabtree and David Alan Sapp1 ... We have doctoral training in Communication Studies and Rhetoric & Professional Communication, respectively.
This unit is all about learning well in today's digital world and then sharing that knowledge with others--the most fundamental and joyous of intellectual experiences.
This book can engender the shift in perspective so needed at this point on the clock of the universe." — Gregory Smith, Professor of Education, Lewis & Clark College, co-author with David Sobel of Place- and Community-based Education in ...
With more attention on respect of differences, the author shares her experience (as both a teacher and as a nonwhite female) and her research on how to identify and address racism or any sort of bias in the classroom