Full Description
Some students hate school, and some students love it. Some students enter classrooms with an "I dare you try to teach me" look on their faces, and others bounce into class excited to learn and anxious to please the teacher. We know we can't automatically blame teachers or schools when students don't want to learn. But we also know that sometimes teachers and schools don't always set students up for success, and they don't always help them love what they're learning. And that's not supposed to happen.
Why Kids Love (and Hate) School: Reflections on Practice investigates some of the school and classroom practices that help students love school—and some that send students in the opposite direction. Intended for classroom teachers, teacher education students, and school administrators, chapters in the book investigate a variety of topics: how schools can build effective school cultures, the "struggle" students encounter in learning, practices of other countries that help students love school, testing practices that cause students to hate school—and much more.
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
