Teaching in the cracks : openings and opportunities for student-centered, action-focused curriculum / Brian D. Schultz ; foreword by Deborah Meier ; afterwords by William Ayers.
This engaging book shows how teachers and schools are creating emergent, democratic, progressive education amidst the current context of high stakes accountability. In this follow-up to his bestseller, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Schultz explores how today’s rhetoric and restrictive man...
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New York, NY :
Teachers College Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Finding Opportunities and Teaching in the Cracks
- Learning Democratic Processes
- A Framework for Making It Happen
- Reflecting on Experiences
- Highlighting Practitioners' Perspectives
- Chapter 2: Working Toward an Alternative
- Contemporary Anti-Progressive Pressure
- An Approach for Resisting Schooling as Usual
- Living Democratic Practices
- Emergent Curriculum and Play-, Project-, and Problem-Based Learning
- Authentic Assessment and Process Over Product
- The Rhetoric of Rigor and Need to Keep Pushing Toward Justice Chapter 3: Inverting the Curriculum, Finding Cracks, and Engaging Students
- To Teach into Curricular Cracks
- Narrative Points-of-Entry
- Developing Spaces to Engage
- Embracing, Negotiating, and Revisiting Challenges
- Chapter 4: The Localizing Ebola Project
- Choosing a Topic
- Connecting to Current Events
- Shifting Local and Taking Action
- Developing Awareness and Engaging Others
- Letting Students Lead and Spinning the Plates
- Sustaining Emergent Curriculum and Transferring Skills.
- Chapter 5: The Sustainable Democracy Project Building Sustainable Democracy at PACHS
- Agitating Students
- Picking the Project
- The Sustainable Democracy Project
- Pushing Beyond the Predictable
- Chapter 6: Becoming the Teacher I Want to Be
- Finding Ways to Connect Amid the High Stakes
- Facing History and Ourselves: Helping to Navigate the Mandates or Expectations
- Still Finding Cracks: Student Voice Committees to Advocate for Change
- Shackling Teachers: (Mis)use of the Tyler Rationale in Schools Today
- Chapter 7: Turning the Corner
- Techniques for Participation
- Organizations and Their Resources Tools Related to Taking Action
- Reflect, Contemplate, and Find Inspiration
- Afterword
- References
- Index
- About the Author.