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." Perfect for courses in: Introduction to Education,General Methods, Social Foundations of Education, Diversity, Management/Assessment,Philosophy of Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Research,Educational Administration/Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Curriculum Theory, and Curriculum Development.
Contents
Foreword by Laura Ruth Johnson
Introduction: Why Kids Love (and Hate) School: Reflections on Difference by Steven P. Jones & Eric C. Sheffield
"Everybody's Listening": When Learning Is Relevant by Jesse Moya
We Really Hated School: The Journey of Two Black PhDs From Alienation to Transformation by De'Andre Shepard & Kalvin DaRonne Harvell
Meeting the Needs of Muslim Learners in an Islamophobic Era by Parisa Meymand
Classes Where "Kids Learn/Don't Learn a Lot": A Study of Mexican American Adolescents' Voices by Janine Bempechat, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Jin Li, & Susan D. Holloway
The Power of Schools to Redirect Pathways: Supporting Students' Love of Learning Across Time and Place by Eréndira Rueda
Under the School Roof, Inside Classroom Walls: The Power of Place-Based Plot Patterns to Shape School Stories of Happiness or Humiliation for Students by Kathy Carter, Amanda Sugimoto, Kathleen Stoehr, & Griff Carter
Kids Love a Classroom for Everyone by Rob Schulze
Forgotten Learners: Academically Strong Kids in Struggling Schools by Jeanne Carey Ingle
Chain Link Poetry by Robin Brandehoff
Alternative Education Programs: Changing Our Vantage Point by Lynn Hemmer & Michael Watson
Listening to the Voices of Our Students: A Framework for Engagement in Science by Rachelle A. Haroldson
Restorative Practices: Beyond Sensitization to Building Skills and Organizational Change by Robert C. Chalwell Jr.
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