Supporting Civics Education with Student Activism
This book empowers teachers to support student activists. The authors examine arguments for promoting student activism, explore state and national curriculum standards, suggest activist projects, and report examples of student individual and group activism. By offering suggestions for engaging students as activists across the K-12 curriculum and by including the stories of student activists who became lifetime activists, the book demonstrates how activism can serve to bolster democracy and be a component of rich, experiential learning. Including interviews with student and teacher activists, this volume highlights issues such as racial and immigrant justice, anti-gun violence, and climate change.
Pablo A. Muriel is a New York City high school teacher who was born, raised, went to school, lives, and teaches in the New York City borough of the Bronx. He earned a Ph.D. in Literacy Studies at Hofstra University.
Alan J. Singer is a teacher educator at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, a former New York City high school teacher, and a lifelong political activist starting with the anti-war and Civil Rights movements of the 1960s.