Teaching for a Living Democracy: Project-Based Learning in the English and History Classroom
- ISBN-10
- 0807764167
- ISBN-13
- 9780807764169
- Category
- Education
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Joshua Block
Description
"This book shares a vision of project-based learning that is rooted in systemic understandings of social change and provides a pragmatic framework and tools for teachers to develop their practice in creative and sustaining ways. It demonstrates how to support different learners to produce intellectually rigorous and creative work by centering students' lives and experiences and offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school. The text includes many classroom scenes and examples of curriculum design strategies"--
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2020
- 129 pages
- Ebook
- Teachers College Press
Similar books
-
Living in Democracy: EDC/HRE Lesson Plans for Lower Secondary Schools
By Rolf Gollob, Peter KrapfLiving in Democracy: EDC/HRE Lesson Plans for Lower Secondary Schools
-
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
By John DeweyIn this book, Dewey tries to criticize and expand on the educational philosophies of Rousseau and Plato. Dewey's ideas were seldom adopted in America's public schools, although a number of...
-
Project Based Teaching: How to Create Rigorous and Engaging Learning Experiences
By Suzie Boss, John Larmer" In this book, Suzie Boss and John Larmer build on the framework for Gold Standard PBL originally presented in Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning and explore the seven practices integral to Project Based Teaching: Build the ...
-
Living Democracy
By Daniel M. Shea, Christopher E. Smith, Joanne Connor GreenActivities and features promote application of concepts outside of the classroom. This text shows students how government impacts their daily lives and how they can make a difference in that government.
-
Introducing Quality Assurance of Education for Democratic Citizenship in Schools: Comparative Study of 10 Countries
By Hermann Josef Abs“ Germany ” , in Hörner , Wolfgang ; Döbert , Hans ; von Kopp , Botho ; Mitter , Wolfgang ( eds . ) , The Education Systems of Europe , Dordrecht : Springer , 299-325 . Döbert , Hans ; Klieme , Eckhard ; Sroka , Wendelin ( eds . ) ...
-
Living Democracy, National/State/Local Edition
By Daniel M. Shea, Christopher E. Smith, Paul C. LightActivities and features promote application of concepts outside of the classroom. This text shows students how government impacts their daily lives and how they can make a difference in that government.
-
Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life
By Walter C. ParkerThis book explores the hard work of citizen-making in a diverse and complex society where individual and group interests often are in conflict.
-
A Democratic Classroom
By Steven WolkThis is a powerful study in creating a democratic classroom, seen through the eyes of a sensitive, reflective teacher. - Knowledge QuestA Democratic Classroom is Steven Wolk's vision of a...
-
Teaching in the Now: John Dewey on the Educational Present
By Jeff FrankJeff Frank’s Teaching in the Now aims to reanimate Dewey’s text—for first-time readers and anyone who teaches the text or is interested in appreciating Dewey’s continuing significance—by focusing on Dewey’s thinking on ...
-
Living Democracy: 2016 Presidential Election
By Daniel M. Shea, Joanne Connor Green, Christopher E SmithActivities and features promote application of concepts outside of the classroom. This text shows students how government impacts their daily lives and how they can make a difference in that government.