Full Description
Understanding and addressing social justice concerns has become a central focus in an increasing number of schools as well as teacher education programs. The activities in this book are grounded in the recognition that personal experience and engagement is essential for meaningful intercultural learning and social justice awareness to occur. The authors of these activities, themselves teachers and teacher educators representing a wide range of disciplines, share their favorite and most engaging strategies they have found to be effective at helping students acquire a level of comfort and insight in what can oftentimes be contentious, challenging and sensitive issues. These hands-on activities actively engage preservice and practicing teachers in real-life and simulated experiences, raising awareness and providing a foundation for introspection, reflection and discussion around these critically important issues in the safety of the classroom setting.
Contents
Introduction Kenneth Cushner
Section 1: Addressing Social Justice through Social Studies and Science
Activity #1 Futures Window
Kenneth Cushner
Activity #2 What is a Family?
Martha Lash
Activity #3 Ideal Types & Transgressors: Reinterpreting the "family tree"
Experience
Janice Kroeger
Activity #4 Do You See What I See?: Using Critical Role-Play to Help
Prospective Teachers View Activities From Multiple Perspectives
Monica Miller Marsh
Activity #5 From Chernobyl to Fukushima: Teaching for Global Justice
Frans H. Doppen and Matthew S. Hollstein
Activity #6 Global Learning Wiki
Chia-Ling Kuo
Activity #7 The Arrow Always Points to the Self: Preservice Teacher Learning
Through Blurred Geopolitical Identities
Jubin Rahatzad, Hannah Sasser, JoAnn Phillion and
Suniti Sharma
Activity #8 The Coalition for Creative Projects
Schea N. Fissel
Activity #9 Conversation Partner Experience: A Win-Win Culture Learning
Encounter
Kenneth Cushner
Activity #10 The Intercultural Market: An Exercise in the Development of Cultural Intelligence
Keith Sakuda
Activity #11 What Lies at the Bottom ......????? An Inquiry-Based Nature
of Science (NOS) Activity with a Multicultural Twist
Rajlakshmi Ghosh
Activity #12 Sexuality, Gender, and Families in the Animal Kingdom:
Lessons from the Wild
Sara Raven
Section 2: Addressing Social Justice through the Social Foundations of Education
Activity #13 Critically Examining Gender Roles: Deconstructing the Myth of
"Boys will be Boys, Girls will be Girls"
Alyse C. Hachey and Yolanda Medina
Activity #14 When I Grow up, I'll Work in the Factory Just Like My Daddy:
Examining Teaching Practices that Perpetuate the Social Class
Status Quo
Yolanda Medina and Alyse C. Hachey
Activity #15 Middle Class Mentality: Using an Online Course Assignment to
Teach Students to Know Self First, Then Other
Randall E. Osborne and Paul Kriese
Activity #16 Getting to Know You: A Simulation to Understand School Context
Joanne Caniglia
Activity #17 Person Like Me
Jason C. Fitzgerald and April A. Mattix
Activity #18 Crossings, Bridges and Borderlands: An Experiential Assignment for
Multicultural Education
Sofia A. Villenas
Activity #19 Follow the Multicolored Brick Road to Cultural Competence
Nancy P. Gallavan
Activity #20 What is my Cultural Identity?
Debra L. Clark
Activity #21 Who Am I? Exploring Students' Social Identities and Social
Inequalities in Cultural Contexts
Jennifer L. Fisette
Activity #22 Bricks in a Backpack: Respecting the Invisible
Diane M. Vetter
Activity #23 Preservice Teachers are Students Too: Developing Awareness of
White Identity and Privilege to Facilitate Change for Inclusivity
and Equality
Tracy Lara
Contributing Authors
