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This book focuses on what learning our young people need if they are to become capable, responsible adults who are able to respond effectively to the crises we face today, and those that will arrive in the future.
List of contents
Acknowledgments - Introduction - Richard Wilkinson: (De)- Graded by Inequality - Stephen Bezruchka: Teaching Knowledge and Action to Promote Health Improvement - Doug Selwyn: The Purpose of Education: A Brief History - Sandra Mathison/E. Wayne Ross: Beyond Education as Usual: Public Education in a Post- Covid World - Jo Cripps: Love in the Time of Covid - Peter Suruda: The Remote Suburbs - Don Fels: Risk, Inquiry, and Learning - Social Studies, Intersectionality, and the Re Humanizing of Education: A Conversation with Jerry Price - Alberto "Beto" Gutierrez: Contextualizing Student Needs Post Pandemic - Jean Mendoza/Debbie Reese: Dear Educators: An Open Letter about How You Teach about Native Peoples - Black Lives Matter at School: A Conversation with Jesse Hagopian - Yves Salomon- Fernández: Evolving Higher Education for a New Consciousness - Jan Maher: Disposed to Democracy - Alyssa Arnell/Leo Hwang/Linda McCarthy: Finding Our Paths to Social Justice Education - Transforming the Teacher Corps: A Conversation with Wayne Au - Caroline Whitcomb: Freedom Schools - Assessing What Matters: A Conversation with Jack Schneider - Assessing What Matters: A Conversation with Jack Schneider - Greta Thunberg: School Strike for Climate: Save the World by Changing the Rules - We Are Suing the U.S. Government: A Conversation with Aji Piper - Aji Piper's Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis (Excerpts) (April 4, 2019) - Final Thoughts (for Now) - Contributors.
About the author
Doug Selwyn taught for 14 years in the Seattle Public Schools and then moved to teacher education, in 2000, first at Antioch University in Seattle, and then for 10 years at SUNY Plattsburgh where he was a Professor of Education until he retired in 2017. He has written several books on education, his most recent, All Children Are All Our Children, published in 2019 with Peter Lang. He can be reached at dougselwyn@aol.com.
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"Doug Selwyn has situated children at the center of future educational possibilities, by bringing together an exemplary diversity of authors to help us reflect and transform human lives before it is too late. This array of scholars, educators, and activists will move you to consider the depths of educational possibility in children, youths, subject matters, contexts, and movements. I urge educators at all levels, policy makers, parents, community members, and students themselves to read, ponder, and act on ideas and events compellingly portrayed in At the Center of All Possibilities." -William H. Schubert, Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Fellow of the International Academy of Education; Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in Curriculum Studies from the American Educational Research Association; and Author of Love, Justice, and Education: John Dewey and the Utopians
