Full Description
This collection consists of theoretical discussions, personal reflections, research reports, and policy suggestions sourced in the experiences of our most vulnerable students with an eye to making schools places all students might love rather than hate. The essays take up these issues from the perspectives of poverty, gender, race, ethnicity, ability, language, and religion among others. These essays also provide practical advice for teachers and administrators—both practicing and pre-service—for making classrooms and schools spaces that would encourage our students to say, "I love school."
Contents
Foreword by Laura Ruth Johnson
Introduction: Why Kids Love (or Hate) School
Everybody's Listening when it Matters: Students Love School When its Relevant to their Lives
We Really Hated School: The Journey of Two Black PhD's From Alienation to Transformation by
Meeting the Needs of Muslim Learners in an Islamophobic
"Teachers always have, like, something new": Mexican American Adolescents' Perceptions of Classrooms in which they Learn, or Don't Learn
The Power of Schools to Redirect Pathways: Shaping and Supporting Students' Love of Learning Across Time and Place
Under the School Roof, Inside Classroom Walls: The Power of Place-Based Plot Patterns to Shape School Stories of Happiness and Glee or Humiliation and Shame for Elementary Students
Kids Love a Classroom for Everyone
Forgotten Learners: Academically Strong Kids in Struggling Schools
Chain Link Poetry
Creating Liberating Classroom Conditions: Alternative School Settings
Igniting Passion among Students (and Teachers) for Civic Engagement: Loving, Seeing, and Hearing our Students: A Framework for Engagement in Science
Restorative practices in Public School Education: Beyond Sensitization to Skills-Building and Organizational Change
