Think, care, act : teaching for a peaceful future

Committed to teaching for peace and justice, the author brings to life a teaching approach that empowers youth: * to think critically and creatively about historical, current, and future issues, * to care about classmates and neighbors as well as the global community, * to act--locally and globally-...

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Main Author Cannon, Susan Gelber (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
SeriesPeace education.
Subjects
Peace > Study and teaching.
Multicultural education.
Education > Social aspects.
Education > Multicultural Education.
Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.
Educational strategies and policy.
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616121
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-428-1
Physical Description1 online resource (xxxii, 213 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Ian Harris
  • Introduction: Teaching students to think, care, and act for a peaceful future
  • Part I. Think!
  • Chapter 1. Critical thinking from september through june
  • Chapter 2. Media literacy and current events: Examining 9-11 and presidential elections
  • Chapter 3. Using critical imagination: The history utopia project and the giver utopia project
  • Part II. Care!
  • Chapter 4. Creating the a-team: Building the school-wide safety net of care for students, teachers, and families
  • Chapter 5. Reading multicultural, historical, and controversial literature to enhance empathy
  • Chapter 6. Creating a caring classroom and global community with poetry and prose
  • Part III. Act!
  • Chapter 7. Citizenship action projects in history class
  • Chapter 8. Student council initiatives in middle school
  • Chapter 9. Empowering elective courses: Debate, model un, peacejam. Afterword: Lessons from a global peace education sabbatical
  • Appendix: Annotated bibliography of resources for teachers and students
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index.

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