Empowering our Students for the Future

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.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.Hilton Smith, starting in 1965, 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.

• 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

Empowering Our Students for the Future is a visionary book that gives us real world examples of just how powerful it is when children make decisions about their own learning. In doing so, this collection also shows us how to challenge the teacher and test centered education being promoted by corporate education reformers.