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This collection of chapters for K-12, college and university and community based organizations
present voices from across the broad community of educators who share their successful empowerment practices using student centered processes inside and outside of the classroom.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1- Empowering Students to Take Control Through Project-Based Learning
Scott Wurdinger
Chapter 2- The Promise of Action Civics in Closing the Civic Engagement Gap
Arielle Jennings
Chapter 3- Engagement of Stakeholders in a Learning Community: Avalon School
Walter Enloe and David Blake Willis
Chapter 4- Finding a Direction, Creating Student Driven Learning Culture
Paul Tweed
Chapter 5- Have I Ever Stopped You...
Fred Chapel
Chapter 6- Beyond Revolution: Transforming Whole Schools to Foster Student Power
Adam Fletcher
Chapter 7- Empowering the Self-Perceived Powerless: Reflections of a first-year, high school science teacher
Kimberly Kim Takagi
Chapter 8- Empowering Students through Curriculum Development in the College Classroom
Kiel Harell and Sara Lam
Chapter 9- Preparing New Teachers to Radically Change Predictable and Unequal Outcomes for P-12: A Critical Race Theory Approach
Timothy Berry
Chapter 10- Engaging and Deschooling Students: Promoting the Grande Passion through Failure and Mastery with Self Determination Theory
Pete Allison
Chapter 11- (Re)Design to Empower Students In the Classroom and at Scale
Jeff Galle
Chapter 12- Creating a Foxfire-like project in Teacher Education
Carlin Bell, Malaika Boyer, Fred Chapel, Jillian Eissler, Ryan Johnson, Muniza Khan, Diana Lesso, Jose Lovo, J. Cynthia McDermott, Zoe Morris, and Ian Stuart
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the author
Scott Wurdinger is a professor of experiential learning and leadership studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. His most recent book published with Rowman and Littlefield is titled Changing the Status Quo: Courage to Challenge the Education System.
Cynthia McDermott is a faculty member in education at Antioch University Los Angeles. Her academic interest is in encouraging opportunities for young people to have power and to stand against oppression.
Starting in 1965 Hilton Smith taught secondary social studies in a variety of demographic situations - rural, suburban, urban - including an alternative high school in Atlantic Public Schools which he cofounded. He served as Coordinator of Education for the Foxfire Foundation until joining the School of Education at Piedmont College, Georgia, until his retirement in June 2017 to assume a part-time status.
Kiel Harell is an assistant professor of education at the University of Minnesota, Morris. His research focuses on increasing opportunities for democratic deliberation in teacher education.
Summary
This collection of chapters for K-12, college and university and community based organizations present voices from across the broad community of educators who share their successful empowerment practices using student centered processes inside and outside of the classroom.
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If we’re ever going to be able to use schools as tools to help people of all ages find their ways to lives worth living and work worth doing, we will have to question the assumptions supporting the schooling status quo. Empowering Our Students for the Future is full of the kinds of questions we need and some possible answers as well.
