Empowering students for just societies
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2019-10-04
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9231003356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2019-10-04
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9231003356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9231006835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ira Shor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-12-10
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 022622385X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What happens when teachers share power with students? In this profound book, Ira Shor—the inventor of critical pedagogy in the United States—relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control. Shor provides the reader with a reenactment of one semester that shows what really can happen when one applies the theory and democratizes the classroom. This is the story of one class in which Shor tried to fully share with his students control of the curriculum and of the classroom. After twenty years of practicing critical teaching, he unexpectedly found himself faced with a student uprising that threatened the very possibility of learning. How Shor resolves these problems, while remaining true to his commitment to power-sharing and radical pedagogy, is the crux of the book. Unconventional in both form and substance, this deeply personal work weaves together student voices and thick descriptions of classroom experience with pedagogical theory to illuminate the power relations that must be negotiated if true learning is to take place.
Author: Kerry Decker Rutishauser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-10-30
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 147585837X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All children deserve the opportunity to practice freedom of thought, voice, and movement in school. Giving students the opportunity to practice freedom--to teach them how to be autonomous, responsible, cooperative and critically literate--should be done in communities and schools across the country, and this book shows how. The key ability of the human brain that cannot be digitized or mechanized is its ability to interpret—that is, to cope with the intentions of another, to understand what was said and what was meant. Humans have the ability to work together as a team toward a common goal (i.e. cooperate), to be altruistic and make sacrifices to help others, to build trust, and to feel empathy or sympathy—and robots do not. Developing and using these interpretive and cooperative skills is essential to having a nation of thoughtful citizens who are capable of seeing themselves as solutions to the problems and issues we face. Empowered Students: Educating Flexible Minds for a Flexible Future is a theory-to-practice story of how students at a segregated and failing New York City high school were released from years of oppressive schooling practices and learned how to practice freedom, told through the voices and the people who built it: the school leaders, teachers and students.
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2017-06-05
Total Pages: 45
ISBN-13: 9231002228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gary Goldman
Publisher: Corwin
Published: 1998-01-14
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In school reform, students are rarely consulted. This book presents a step-by-step process for involving students in transforming schools and empowering them to make real decisions that affect their education.
Author: International Commission on the Futures of Education
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2021-11-06
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9231004786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The interwoven futures of humanity and our planet are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures.
Author: Natalie Wexler
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0735213569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.
Author: Rieckmann, Marco
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2017-03-20
Total Pages: 67
ISBN-13: 9231002090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Fernando Reimers
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-05-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781546456773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers three tools to assist student, teachers and school leaders in educating global citizens. The first is a protocol to design and adapt global citizenship curriculum. The second is a protocol to design a school wide strategy for global education. The third is an actual curriculum prototype, a sixty lesson global citizenship curriculum, developed following the process presented in the book.