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This collection consists of theoretical discussions, personal
reflections, research reports, and policy suggestions sourced in
the experiences of our most vulnerable students with an eye to
making schools places all students might love rather than hate. The
essays take up these issues from the perspectives of poverty,
gender, race, ethnicity, ability, language, and religion among
others. These essays also provide practical advice for teachers and
administrators—both practicing and pre-service—for making
classrooms and schools spaces that would encourage our students to
say, "I love school."Â Â Perfect for courses in:
Introduction to Education,General Methods, Social Foundations of
Education, Diversity, Management/Assessment,Philosophy of
Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Research,Educational
Administration/Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Curriculum Theory,
and Curriculum Development.
This collection consists of theoretical discussions, personal
reflections, research reports, and policy suggestions sourced in
the experiences of our most vulnerable students with an eye to
making schools places all students might love rather than hate. The
essays take up these issues from the perspectives of poverty,
gender, race, ethnicity, ability, language, and religion among
others. These essays also provide practical advice for teachers and
administrators-both practicing and pre-service-for making
classrooms and schools spaces that would encourage our students to
say, "I love school."
Some students hate school, and some students love it. Some students
enter classrooms with an "I dare you try to teach me" look on their
faces, and others bounce into class excited to learn and anxious to
please the teacher. We know we can't automatically blame teachers
or schools when students don't want to learn. But we also know that
sometimes teachers and schools don't always set students up for
success, and they don't always help them love what they're
learning. And that's not supposed to happen. Why Kids Love (and
Hate) School: Reflections on Practice investigates some of the
school and classroom practices that help students love school-and
some that send students in the opposite direction. Intended for
classroom teachers, teacher education students, and school
administrators, chapters in the book investigate a variety of
topics: how schools can build effective school cultures, the
"struggle" students encounter in learning, practices of other
countries that help students love school, testing practices that
cause students to hate school-and much more.
Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in
an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides an as-of-yet unexplored
critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory,
praxis, and policy with particular reference to the current state
of dehumanizing and often oppressive policy and practices that have
come to demarcate the era of NCLB and RTT. The authors in this
collection employ dystopian themes found in literature, film,
visual art, and video games as the lens for that critical inquiry.
As such Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and
Policy is an essential contribution to the philosophical/critical
tradition in educational scholarship. It is especially valuable
because the inquiry undertaken is from a new perspective-one that
will extend the critical tradition into a yet unexplored arena.
Given the educational climate established by NCLB and RTT, this
collection is especially important to the ongoing critical analysis
of such policy mandates. There is also a significantly important
timeliness to this book given NCLB's utopian expectation of
universal academic proficiency among American schoolchildren by the
year 2014: as educators race to achieve such a noble yet naive
goal, this collection of essays examines the educational
environment that has been enacted to achieve such ends, and
describes our current state as a utopia-gone wrong.
Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in
an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides an as-of-yet unexplored
critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory,
praxis, and policy with particular reference to the current state
of dehumanizing and often oppressive policy and practices that have
come to demarcate the era of NCLB and RTT. The authors in this
collection employ dystopian themes found in literature, film,
visual art, and video games as the lens for that critical inquiry.
As such Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and
Policy is an essential contribution to the philosophical/critical
tradition in educational scholarship. It is especially valuable
because the inquiry undertaken is from a new perspective-one that
will extend the critical tradition into a yet unexplored arena.
Given the educational climate established by NCLB and RTT, this
collection is especially important to the ongoing critical analysis
of such policy mandates. There is also a significantly important
timeliness to this book given NCLB's utopian expectation of
universal academic proficiency among American schoolchildren by the
year 2014: as educators race to achieve such a noble yet naive
goal, this collection of essays examines the educational
environment that has been enacted to achieve such ends, and
describes our current state as a utopia-gone wrong.
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