Empowering our students for the future : encouraging self-direction and life-long learning /

"Educators of every kind such as school superintendents, principals, teachers, higher education practitioners, community organizers and even students will gain essential skills, resources and examples to encourage and support individual as well as collective empowerment from early childhood edu...

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Other Authors: Wurdinger, Scott D. (Editor), McDermott, J. Cynthia, 1949- (Editor), Harell, Kiel (Editor), Smith, Hilton (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Empowering students to take control through project-based learning / Scott D. Wurdinger
  • The promise of action civics in closing the civic engagement gap / Arielle Jennings
  • Engagement of stakeholders in a learning community: Avalon School / Walter Enloe and David Blake Willis
  • Finding a direction, creating student-driven learning culture / Paul Tweed
  • Have I ever stopped you? / Fred Chapel
  • Beyond revolution: transforming whole schools to foster student power / Adam Fletcher
  • Empowering the self-perceived powerless: reflections of a first-year high school science teacher / Kimberly K. Takagi
  • Empowering students through curriculum development in the college classroom / Kiel Harell and Sara Lam
  • Preparing new teachers to radically change predictable and unequal outcomes for P-12: a critical race theory approach / Timothy Berry
  • Engaging and deschooling students: promoting the grande passion through failure and mastery with self-determination theory / Pete Allison
  • (Re)design to empower students in the classroom and at scale / Jeff Galle
  • Creating a Foxfire-like project in teacher education / Carlin Bell, Malaika Boyer, Fred Chapel, Jillian Eissler, Ryan Johnson, Muniza Khan, Diana Lesso, Jose Lovo, J. Cynthia McDermott, Zoe Morris, and Ian Stuart.