Caring hearts & critical minds : literature, inquiry, and social responsibility /

Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as workers. What if school were also about cultivating students to be caring, community-involved citizens and critic.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wolk, Steven
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Portland : Stenhouse Publishers, 2013.
Subjects:	Affective education. Social learning. Social justice > Study and teaching. Citizenship > Study and teaching. Children's literature > Social aspects. Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) Children's literature > Social aspects. Citizenship > Study and teaching. Social justice > Study and teaching. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Why Read?; Chapter 2: Good Books; Chapter 3: Learning Through Inquiry; Chapter 4: Teaching for Social Responsibility; Chapter 5: Real-World Resources; Chapter 6: Designing an Inquiry Unit; Chapter 7: Does Technology Always Make Life Better?; Chapter 8: Why Should I Care About the Environment?; Chapter 9: What Is Empathy?; Chapter 10: Why Should I Care About What Is Happening Around the World?; Chapter 11: Why Care About Poverty?
Chapter 12: Reading for Heart and Mind (in the Age of Testing and Standards)Chapter 13: Becoming a Teacher of Inquiry; Appendixes A-N; References; Index; Footnote