Researching and teaching social issues
Subtitle: the personal stories and pedagogical efforts of professors of education
By: edited by Samuel Totten and Jon E. Pedersen
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781617357466
Subjects: Social aspects; Study and teaching; Education; Social sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Samuel Totten and Jon E. Pedersen; title: Education, politics, and social transformation / Michael W. Apple; title: Human ecology and science education policies and programs: reflections on social activism / Roger W. Bybee; title: Forty days and forty nights in the wilderness of capitalist schooling / Ronald W. Evans; title: Becoming political: one woman's story / Carole L. Hahn; title: The unending quest for social issues in the schools: a personal narrative / Byron G. Massialas; title: Social justice / Alex Molnar; title: My experience with social issues and education / Fred Newmann; title: Social issues and decision making: a career long commitment / Anna S. Ochoa-Becker; title: The evolution of an educator / Jon E. Pedersen; title: A happenstance-based social issues career / James P. Shaver; title: Serendipity: a paradigm shifter's friend in academia / Barbara Solomon Spector; title: A synergy of awareness, understanding, empathy and action: confronting social issues in the English classroom and beyond / Samuel Totten; title: Socials issues as contexts for science and technology education / Robert Yager.