Researching and teaching social issues : the personal stories and pedagogical efforts of professors of education

(orginally published by Lexington Books, A division of Rowman & Littlefield)Researching and Teaching Social Issues: The Personal Stories and Pedagogical Efforts of Professors of Education is comprised of original personal essays in which notable teacher educators delineate the genesis and evolut...

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Other Authors Totten, Samuel (Editor), Pedersen, Jon E., 1960- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2012]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615490
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-747-3
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 279 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Samuel Totten and Jon E. Pedersen
  • Education, politics, and social transformation / Michael W. Apple
  • Human ecology and science education policies and programs: reflections on social activism / Roger W. Bybee
  • Forty days and forty nights in the wilderness of capitalist schooling / Ronald W. Evans
  • Becoming political: one woman's story / Carole L. Hahn
  • The unending quest for social issues in the schools: a personal narrative / Byron G. Massialas
  • Social justice / Alex Molnar
  • My experience with social issues and education / Fred Newmann
  • Social issues and decision making: a career long commitment / Anna S. Ochoa-Becker
  • The evolution of an educator / Jon E. Pedersen
  • A happenstance-based social issues career / James P. Shaver
  • Serendipity: a paradigm shifter's friend in academia / Barbara Solomon Spector
  • A synergy of awareness, understanding, empathy and action: confronting social issues in the English classroom and beyond / Samuel Totten
  • Socials issues as contexts for science and technology education / Robert Yager.