Preparing to teach social studies for social justice : becoming a renegade / Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Alison G. Dover, Nicholas Henning ; foreword by Rick Ayers.
This practical book shows how veteran, justice-oriented social studies teachers are responding to the Common Core State Standards, focusing on how they build curriculum, support students' literacy skills, and prepare students to think and act critically within and beyond the classroom. In order to p...
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New York, NY :
Teachers College Press,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | x, 150 pages ; 23 cm |
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Contents:
- Introduction
- Conceptual approaches to the common core
- Focus on critical literacy
- "What will I teach?": justice-oriented content for critical hope
- Students have the answers: pedagogies of possibility and power
- Becoming a renegade: preparing to teach for social justice
- You can do this, but not alone: build community, find mentors, and keep your teaching as a political act.