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...
The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, they carefully describe how the arts provide an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn. The book includes rich and lively examples of public school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter, including English, social studies, science, and mathematics. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts every day, in every school, to reach every child....
The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be follo...
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...
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...
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...
