Empowering our Students for the Future

Encouraging Self-Direction and Life-Long Learning

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Scott D. Wurdinger, J. Cynthia McDermott, Kiel Harell, Hilton Smith, J. Cynthia Mcdermott

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Educators of every kind such as school superintendents, principals, teachers, higher education practitioners, community organizers and even students will gain essential skills, resources and examples to encourage and support individual as well as collective empowerment from early childhood education through college in both traditional classrooms and in the broader community. Working toward the goal of empowering young people as active citizens, this collection of chapters presents voices from across the broad community of educators who share their successful individual work of methods and practices that empower young people to engage in their own agency. By using student centered practices in and out of the classroom, their stories demonstrate multiple ways to successfully achieve these ends. The book clearly and effectively presents these concepts: How to encourage self-directed learning; methods and examples of participatory practices and inquiry methods; strategies designing and supporting Problem Based Learning; models for civic engagement; organizing strategies; and practices related to Critical Race Theory. This collection can provide practitioners with strategies and skills that will encourage and develop self-confidence and self-direction in many arenas working together to create change in a democratic landscape as youth learn to use their power.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-09-30
Mått152 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor168
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781475845815

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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.

PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1- Empowering Students to Take Control Through Project-Based LearningScott WurdingerChapter 2- The Promise of Action Civics in Closing the Civic Engagement GapArielle JenningsChapter 3- Engagement of Stakeholders in a Learning Community: Avalon SchoolWalter Enloe and David Blake WillisChapter 4- Finding a Direction, Creating Student Driven Learning CulturePaul TweedChapter 5- Have I Ever Stopped You…Fred ChapelChapter 6- Beyond Revolution: Transforming Whole Schools to Foster Student PowerAdam FletcherChapter 7- Empowering the Self-Perceived Powerless: Reflections of a first-year, high school science teacherKimberly Kim TakagiChapter 8- Empowering Students through Curriculum Development in the College ClassroomKiel Harell and Sara LamChapter 9- Preparing New Teachers to Radically Change Predictable and Unequal Outcomes for P-12: A Critical Race Theory ApproachTimothy BerryChapter 10- Engaging and Deschooling Students: Promoting the Grande Passion through Failure and Mastery with Self Determination TheoryPete AllisonChapter 11- (Re)Design to Empower Students In the Classroom and at ScaleJeff GalleChapter 12- Creating a Foxfire-like project in Teacher EducationCarlin Bell, Malaika Boyer, Fred Chapel, Jillian Eissler, Ryan Johnson, Muniza Khan, Diana Lesso, Jose Lovo, J. Cynthia McDermott, Zoe Morris, and Ian StuartAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors