Title: Hungry minds in hard times
Description: A story of liberatory education for poor, working-class, rural, middle school students. Through investigating the reopening of a local coal mine, a group of eighth graders-with teacher Bill Elasky and university professor Rosalie M. Romano-explored the contradictory, contentious, and conflicting perspectives of community members and the coal company. Multiple viewpoints amplified the complexity of the local issue and provided the backdrop for critical literacy, trust and dialogue, and a sense of connection and affinity. This book challenges the belief that a diet of disconnected facts provides nourishment for students from poor and working-class backgrounds. Instead, teaching through complexity is acknowledged as a subversive, necessary act that interrupts the dominant value system, which keeps failing as a way of life for rural and inner city students. [back cover].
Subjects: Curricula, Educational sociology, Education, Postmodernism and education, Social classes, Social Sciences, Special Topics Education, Educational sociology, united states, Education, united states, Education, curricula, Social classes, united states
Places: United States