Parallel Practices: Social Justice-Focused Teacher Education and the Elementary School Classroom

ISBN-13: 9780820455938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 184 str.

Steinberg, Shirley R.

Opis

In Parallel Practices, a social justice-focused elementary teacher educator narrates her own experience with the rationale for selected lessons from critical literacy, equity-oriented multiculturalism, and pedagogical practice courses. She examines the -parallel practice- implications of her own curriculum with graduate students for the work her students will do with children. Regenspan situates her practices in a unique interpretation of John Dewey s thinking one that suggests a standpoint for both her own curriculum-making and that of her students in opposition to the division of labor into thinking work and doing work. Using Dewey s later thinking, which calls for the integration of -mind-body in wholeness of operation, - Regenspan insists that the work of social justice-focused education is equally political and spiritual."

O autorze

The Author: Barbara Regenspan co-coordinates the social justice-focused Master's programs in elementary education at SUNY Binghamton. She has conceptualized Social Action as Curriculum as both a course and a general direction for her students' curriculum-making. Her articles have appeared in Curriculum Inquiry, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education.