From the Margins to the Mainstream (eBook, ePUB)

Enhancing Social Awareness in the Social Studies Classroom
Redaktion: Cushner, Kenneth; Dowdy, Joanne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475808940
• Artikelnr.: 41009909

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Cushner, Ed. D. is Professor of international and intercultural teacher education at Kent State University, author of numerous textbooks, chapter and articles in the fields of multicultural education and intercultural training, and a Founding Fellow and Past President of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. He also serves as director of the Consortium for Overseas Student Teaching (COST). Joanne Kilgour Dowdy is a Professor of Adolescent/Adult Literacy at Kent State University. The American Educational Research Association Narrative and Research SIG awarded her book, Ph.D. Stories: Conversations with My Sisters, the Outstanding Book Award for 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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