Teaching for a Living Democracy
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Author_Joshua Block
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cohesive secondary school classroom communities
community partnerships
curriculum and secondary school deep learning
decolonizing school spaces
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high school social studies instruction
high school student collaboration and curricula
high school student peer review
high school student Project-Based Learning
high school student self-evaluation
inquiry-based teaching and learning in urban high schools
multimedia integration
oral history projects
PBL
progressive high school student education
standards- based instruction and arts integration
student agency in secondary school education
student voice in english and history classrooms
teaching immigrant high school students
teaching social justice education in high school
urban education and secondary english teaching
Product details
- ISBN 9780807764169
- Weight: 215g
- Dimensions: 152 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This classroom narrative explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally fulfilling teaching practice while changing the way students experience school. Written by an English and history teacher in a Philadelphia public high school, this book presents a framework of teaching for a living democracy-supporting learners to produce intellectually rigorous and creative work by designing instruction that intersects with students' lives and interests. The text offers project-based units of study and classroom practices that allow students to reconfigure understandings of themselves, their capabilities, and their roles in the world. Packed with student voices and the work of youth, this book provides a rich window into classroom practices that challenge authoritarian tendencies while cultivating dignity and agency.
Book Features:
- Shares a vision of project-based inquiry learning that is rooted in systemic understandings of social change.
- Provides a pragmatic framework and tools to help teachers develop their practice in creative and sustainable ways.
- Shows how to support diverse learners, with a special focus on the experiences of students who struggle.
- Includes many classroom scenes and examples of curriculum design strategies.
- Offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school.
Joshua Block teaches public high school students English and history in Philadelphia. He is a teacher educator, a national board certified teacher, and recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching.
