Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1- Empowering Students to Take Control Through Project-Based Learning
Scott Wurdinger
Chapter 2- The Promise of Action Civics in Closing the Civic Engagement Gap
Arielle Jennings
Chapter 3- Engagement of Stakeholders in a Learning Community: Avalon School
Walter Enloe and David Blake Willis
Chapter 4- Finding a Direction, Creating Student Driven Learning Culture
Paul Tweed
Chapter 5- Have I Ever Stopped You...
Fred Chapel
Chapter 6- Beyond Revolution: Transforming Whole Schools to Foster Student Power
Adam Fletcher
Chapter 7- Empowering the Self-Perceived Powerless: Reflections of a first-year, high school science teacher
Kimberly Kim Takagi
Chapter 8- Empowering Students through Curriculum Development in the College Classroom
Kiel Harell and Sara Lam
Chapter 9- Preparing New Teachers to Radically Change Predictable and Unequal Outcomes for P-12: A Critical Race Theory Approach
Timothy Berry
Chapter 10- Engaging and Deschooling Students: Promoting the Grande Passion through Failure and Mastery with Self Determination Theory
Pete Allison
Chapter 11- (Re)Design to Empower Students In the Classroom and at Scale
Jeff Galle
Chapter 12- Creating a Foxfire-like project in Teacher Education
Carlin Bell, Malaika Boyer, Fred Chapel, Jillian Eissler, Ryan Johnson, Muniza Khan, Diana Lesso, Jose Lovo, J. Cynthia McDermott, Zoe Morris, and Ian Stuart
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