Class Actions - Teaching for Social Justice in Elementary and Middle School

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. 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."

Summary

This volume provides pictures of classrooms whose teachers have made education for social justice central to their curriculum. It offers familiar structures used in innovative ways, such as integrating thematic studies of discrimination in US history to help children examine their own prejudices.

Product details

• Authors: Jobeth Allen
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1999
• EAN: 9780807738566
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-3856-6
• No. of pages: 169
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 230 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Practitioner Inquiry (Paperbac; Practitioner Inquiry (Paperbac
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research