How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with the educational landscape of privilege and abundance, he began exploring the burning questions he had as a teacher on the lessons affluent students are taught in schooling about their place in the world, their relationships with others, and who they are.
Grounded in an extensive...
How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard ...
How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with the educational landscape of privilege and abundance, he began exploring the burning questions he had as a teacher on the lessons affluent students are taught in schooling about their place in the world, their relationships with others, and who they are.
Grounded in an extensive...
How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard ...
How do students' racial identities work with and against teachers' pedagogies to shape their understandings of history and contemporary society? Based on a long-term ethnographic study, Interpreting National History examines the startling differences in black and white students' interpretations of U.S. history in classroom and community settings. Interviews with children and teens compare and contrast the historical interpretations students bring with them to the classroom with those they leave with after a year of teacher's instruction. Firmly grounded in history and social...
How do students' racial identities work with and against teachers' pedagogies to shape their understandings of history and contemporary society? Ba...
Narrating National History examines the differences in white and African American childrens, adolescents, and adults interpretations of US history in classroom and community settings. Based on ethnographic interviews with children, teens, and adults in a working class US city, the manuscript focuses on the difference in different grade levels interpretations of national history at the beginning of the school year. Also included are teachers views and instruction, vignettes from classroom discussions, as well as parents views of US history, contemporary society and citizenship.
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Narrating National History examines the differences in white and African American childrens, adolescents, and adults interpretations of US history in ...
'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA - as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has b...
Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts. Defined as representations of past violence and oppression, difficult histories are contested and can evoke emotional, often painful, responses in the present. Teaching and learning these histories is contentious yet necessary for increased dialogue within conflict-ridden societies, reconciliation in post-conflict societies, and greater social cohesion in long-standing democratic nations. Focusing on locations and populations across...
Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in internation...
