This volume provides vivid pictures of classrooms whose teachers have made education for social justice central to their curriculum. While the goal may be idealistic, these class actions are profoundly practical. Readers will see familiar structures used in innovative ways, such as an integrated thematic study of discrimination in U.S. history that helps children examine their own prejudices the involvement of students with learning difficulties in developing their own IEPs the use of journals, class discussions, and ...
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This volume provides vivid pictures of classrooms whose teachers have made education for social justice central to their curriculum. While the goal may be idealistic, these class actions are profoundly practical. Readers will see familiar structures used in innovative ways, such as an integrated thematic study of discrimination in U.S. history that helps children examine their own prejudices the involvement of students with learning difficulties in developing their own IEPs the use of journals, class discussions, and team meetings to prompt self-examination and challenge assumptions the study of a "poor" character in a novel that helps students examine their own class privilege. Written as first-person narratives with the voices of teachers and students, this book invites readers into urban and rural, elementary, middle school, and teacher education classrooms to experience a wide variety of ways to teach "justice for all."
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