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Culturally Responsive Reading: Teaching Literature for Social Justice
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Washington, Durthy A. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Help students to explore the intertextuality of literature and to think more deeply and compassionately about the world. This book shows high school teachers and college instructors how to foreground a work's cultural context, recognizing that every culture has its own narrative tradition of oral and written classics that inform its literature.…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Literature, Social Justice, Reading Instruction
The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
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Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Problematizing Service-Learning: Critical Reflections for Development and Action
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Stewart, Trae, Ed.; Webster, Nicole, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Interest in and research on civic engagement and service-learning have increased exponentially. In this rapid growth, efforts have been made to institutionalize pedagogies of engagement across both K-12 and higher education. As a result, increased positive attention has been complemented equally by well-founded critiques complicating experiential…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Evaluators, Elementary Secondary Education
Transforming Teacher Education: What Went Wrong with Teacher Training, and How We Can Fix It
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Hill-Jackson, Valerie, Ed.; Lewis, Chance W., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
In this book, 12 distinguished scholars provide a hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, historical and theoretical critique of our schools of education, and offer clear recommendations on what must be done to ensure all children can achieve their potential, and contribute to a vibrant, democratic society. This book contains a Foreword by Peter…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Schools of Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Transforming City Schools through Art: Approaches to Meaningful K-12 Learning
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Hutzel, Karen; Bastos, Flavia M. C.; Cozier, Kimberly J. – Teachers College Press, 2012
This anthology places art at the center of meaningful urban education reform. Providing a fresh perspective on urban education, the contributors describe a positive, asset-based community development model designed to tap into the teaching/learning potential already available in urban cities. Rather than focusing on a lack of resources, this…
Descriptors: Community Development, Urban Schools, Art Education, Educational Change
Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan. Postcolonial Studies in Education
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Naseem, M. Ayaz – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
"Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan" challenges the uncritical use of the long held dictum of the development discourse that education empowers women. Situated in the post-structuralist feminist position, it argues that in its current state the educational discourse in Pakistan actually disempowers women. Through a systematic…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Females, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries