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The Social Studies Curriculum, Fifth Edition

Edited by E. Wayne Ross
Subjects: Education

This fully updated and revised edition includes fourteen new chapters on contemporary topics such as critical race theory, decolonizing the curriculum, economics education, and children’s rights.

Crossing Digital Fronteras

Demonstrates the liberatory potential of Latinx Digital Humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and in Latinx Studies classrooms.

When History Returns

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.

Plato's Reasons

Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.

Moving across Differences

Explores how discussion of LGBTQ+ themes in a high-school literature course can foster ethical engagement among students.

Teaching Race in Perilous Times

Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.

Teaching Politics in Secondary Education

By Wayne Journell
Subjects: Education

Uses data collected from multiple studies to offer recommendations on best practices for use in a polarized climate.

A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism

Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.

Listening to Teach

Edited by Leonard J. Waks
Subjects: Education

First book to offer a survey of pedagogical listening in conventional and alternative methodologies.

We, the Students and Teachers

Provides practical applications of democratic teaching for classes in history/social studies education, multicultural and social justice education, community service and civic engagement, and education and public policy.

Inside the Undergraduate Teaching Experience

Shows what kind of changes college faculty make to their teaching and why they make them.

Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools through Professional Development Schools

Provides insights into university partnerships with urban schools.

Between Speaking and Silence

By Mary M. Reda
Subjects: Education

Explores the question of student silence from students’ perspectives and challenges the conventional wisdom about silent students.

Death in the Classroom

By Jeffrey Berman
Subjects: Psychology

Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.

A Buddhist in the Classroom

A Buddhist perspective on classroom teaching.

The Living Classroom

Describes the emergence of powerful fields of consciousness that influence students’ learning and personal transformation.

Talking about a Revolution

Analyzes how teachers attempt to translate the language of reform into pedagogical action.

African-Centered Pedagogy

Integrates the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a theory for the educational achievement of African American children.

Practicing What We Teach

This book provides new teachers with concepts and pedagogical strategies designed to enhance the unique and individual characteristics of an increasingly diverse student population.

Inquiry and Reflection

Inquiry and Reflection shows how stories of schooling can elucidate difficult, and unexamined problems facing teachers. While professional texts tend to raise issues of power and its distribution and ...

Teaching-The Imperiled Profession

By Daniel L. Duke
Subjects: Education

What is it really like to be a teacher today? Teaching—The Imperiled Profession goes beyond conventional analyses, to probe the profession and various threats to its viability. Daniel L. Duke has drawn ...