Teaching To Change The World
Teaching to Change the Worldreceives Critics Choice Award.The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) has awarded Teaching to Change the World its Critics Choice Award.  AESA is comprised of college and university professors who teach and research in the field of education.  Its role is to provide a cross-disciplinary forum for the discussion of broad policy issues relating to education. ABOUT THE BOOKTeaching to Change the Worldargues that a hopeful, democratic future depends on whether all students experience academic rigor and social justice in school.  This book is used widely as a college text for Introduction to Education, Social foundations of Education, and Multicultural Education courses.  However, the authors groundbreaking approach, engaging prose, and devastating directness will guide the general reader to a far deeper understanding of how they can and why they must argue for rigorous WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK: The overall approach, its organization, coverage, and inviting and readable level, is spectacular.  It is a work of love and respect for all who selflessly enter the field of education and who will live, learn, and teach in the next millennium. Rudolfo Chavez, Chavez,  New Mexico State University I actually felt relieved while reading it because it consolidated contemporary educational history while attending to important past roots and new branches.  I think the argument itself-to teach for both academic rigor and social justiceis profoundly important and admirably done here.  This book stands alone in my mind.  It is more comprehensive than the books Ive read on multiculturalism, on caring, on classroom discipline. . .The fact that these arguments are gathered in one place is wonderful and extremely helpful.  Patricia A. Wasley, Dean of the Graduate School, Bank Street College of Education Its treatment of the most recent theories regarding human development and learning, combined with historical-to-present analysis of schooling in this country is unique.  [Oakes and Lipton} challenge the reader to make sense of why school/education is the way it is. Eugene Garcia, Dean of the School of Education, University of California, Berkeley--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.