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Explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally fulfilling teaching practice while changing the way students experience school. The book presents a framework of teaching for a living democracy - supporting learners to produce intellectually creative work by designing instruction that intersects with students' lives.

Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Reframing School Learning
  • Teaching for a Living Democracy
  • Changing the Grammar of Schooling
  • My Teaching Context and Background
  • Agency and Possibility
  • 2. Designing Curriculum for Deeper Learning
  • Immigration Oral History Projects
  • Advanced Essay Process
  • Modern Day de Tocquevilles
  • 3. Elevating Student Voices and Truths
  • Acknowledging and Honoring Students' Realities
  • Bulding Cohesive Classroom Communities
  • Making Learning Complex and Real
  • Prioritizing Student Voices, Decentralizing the Classroom
  • 4. Envisioning New Roles for Teachers
  • Reframing Teacher Voice
  • Teachers as Facilitators
  • Teachers as Lead Collaborators
  • Teachers as Consultants and Scholars
  • 5. Decolonizing School
  • Insights from Aotearoa, New Zealand
  • Biculturalism and Creating Space in Schools
  • The Re-PLACE-ing Project
  • Our Philadelphia, Our America
  • 6. Engaging Multiple Realities of Teaching   for a Living Democracy
  • Art in the Open
  • The Messy Process of Creation
  • Navigating Intolerance
  • Engaging Issues of the World
  • Epilogue: For Teachers
  • Appendix: Additional Classroom Resources
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 4/17/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780807764169, 978-0807764169
      ISBN10: 0807764167
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally fulfilling teaching practice while changing the way students experience school. The book presents a framework of teaching for a living democracy - supporting learners to produce intellectually creative work by designing instruction that intersects with students' lives.

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Reframing School Learning
      • Teaching for a Living Democracy
      • Changing the Grammar of Schooling
      • My Teaching Context and Background
      • Agency and Possibility
      • 2. Designing Curriculum for Deeper Learning
      • Immigration Oral History Projects
      • Advanced Essay Process
      • Modern Day de Tocquevilles
      • 3. Elevating Student Voices and Truths
      • Acknowledging and Honoring Students' Realities
      • Bulding Cohesive Classroom Communities
      • Making Learning Complex and Real
      • Prioritizing Student Voices, Decentralizing the Classroom
      • 4. Envisioning New Roles for Teachers
      • Reframing Teacher Voice
      • Teachers as Facilitators
      • Teachers as Lead Collaborators
      • Teachers as Consultants and Scholars
      • 5. Decolonizing School
      • Insights from Aotearoa, New Zealand
      • Biculturalism and Creating Space in Schools
      • The Re-PLACE-ing Project
      • Our Philadelphia, Our America
      • 6. Engaging Multiple Realities of Teaching   for a Living Democracy
      • Art in the Open
      • The Messy Process of Creation
      • Navigating Intolerance
      • Engaging Issues of the World
      • Epilogue: For Teachers
      • Appendix: Additional Classroom Resources
      • References
      • Index
      • About the Author

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