Teaching as Principled Practice: Managing Complexity for Social Justice presents a practical vision for effective teacher development emphasizing social justice. This vision is encompassed in a set of six principles that underlie the authorsOCO work with pre-service teachers, and is intended to guide oneOCOs practice in the classroom. The textOCOs primary focus is on children and youth who have been traditionally underserved by educational institutions in the United States. It speaks directly to both pre-service and experienced teachers in a way that addresses the challenges of urban...
Teaching as Principled Practice: Managing Complexity for Social Justice presents a practical vision for effective teacher development emphasizing s...
Donahue (education, Mills College) presents a practical vision for teacher development that emphasizes social justice. This vision is encompassed in a set of six principles underlying the authors' work with preservice teachers. Primary focus is on children and youth who have been traditionally underserved by schools. The book can be used in courses
Donahue (education, Mills College) presents a practical vision for teacher development that emphasizes social justice. This vision is encompassed in a...
A college student wants to lead a campaign to ban a young adult novel from his child's elementary school as his service-learning project in a children's literature course. Believing the book is offensive to religious sensibilities, he sees his campaign as a service to children and the community. Viewing such a ban as limiting freedom of speech and access to information, the student's professor questions whether leading a ban qualifies as a service project. If the goal of service is to promote more vital democratic communities, what should the student do? What should the professor do? How...
A college student wants to lead a campaign to ban a young adult novel from his child's elementary school as his service-learning project in a child...
A college student wants to lead a campaign to ban a young adult novel from his child's elementary school as his service-learning project in a children's literature course. Believing the book is offensive to religious sensibilities, he sees his campaign as a service to children and the community. Viewing such a ban as limiting freedom of speech and access to information, the student's professor questions whether leading a ban qualifies as a service project. If the goal of service is to promote more vital democratic communities, what should the student do? What should the professor do? How...
A college student wants to lead a campaign to ban a young adult novel from his child's elementary school as his service-learning project in a child...
This handbook provides teachers with a framework for implementing inquiry-based, substantive art integration across the curriculum, along with the background knowledge and models needed to do this. Drawing on ideas from Harvard Project Zero, the authors make a clear and compelling argument for how contemporary art supports student learning. The text features subject-specific chapters co-written by teaching scholars from that discipline. Each chapter includes examples of contemporary art with explanations of how these works explore the fundamental concepts of the academic discipline. The book...
This handbook provides teachers with a framework for implementing inquiry-based, substantive art integration across the curriculum, along with the bac...
This handbook provides teachers with a framework for implementing inquiry-based, substantive art integration across the curriculum, along with the background knowledge and models needed to do this. Drawing on ideas from Harvard Project Zero, the authors make a clear and compelling argument for how contemporary art supports student learning. The text features subject-specific chapters co-written by teaching scholars from that discipline. Each chapter includes examples of contemporary art with explanations of how these works explore the fundamental concepts of the academic discipline. The book...
This handbook provides teachers with a framework for implementing inquiry-based, substantive art integration across the curriculum, along with the bac...
David M. Donahue Star Plaxton-Moore Tania Mitchell
Provides a guide to what's involved in community engaged learning, from understanding the pervasiveness of social, economic and environmental problems, to learning about how individuals and organisations in communities work to overcome them. Students will discover through a process of reflection how service connects to personal development and the content of their courses.
Provides a guide to what's involved in community engaged learning, from understanding the pervasiveness of social, economic and environmental problems...