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Becoming a Holocaust Educator: Purposeful Pedagogy through Inquiry
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Lemberg, Jennifer, Ed.; Pope, Alexander, IV, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2021
Today's teachers seek to address the Holocaust not just as history, but also in relation to current events. Featuring stories from middle school, high school, and university classrooms across the United States, this collection offers a comprehensive argument for the inclusion of purposeful Holocaust pedagogy rooted in literacy practices and…
Descriptors: World History, History Instruction, Current Events, Middle Schools
Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education: Honoring Student Voice, Identity, and Agency
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Stewart, Connie, Ed.; Burke, Eli, Ed.; Hochtritt, Lisa, Ed.; Northington, Toya, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2023
These stories from art educators highlight how art and visual culture can bridge learning with lived experience. Written "by" and "for" art educators from all backgrounds and contexts, this volume offers guidance for expanding students' opportunities to critically examine current events, histories, and cultural assumptions in…
Descriptors: Art Education, Relevance (Education), Current Events, History
Teaching in Themes: An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiating Instruction. Practitioner Inquiry Series
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Meier, Deborah, Ed.; Knoester, Matthew, Ed.; D'Andrea, Katherine Clunis, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2015
How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities, and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build on their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools become places where everyone is learning from each…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Student Evaluation, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Deepening Literacy Learning: Art and Literature Engagements in K-8 Classrooms. Teaching--Learning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews: International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human Rights
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Reilly, Mary Ann; Gangi, Jane M.; Cohen, Rob – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
This book is a wonderful blending of methodologies. This juxtaposition of art and literature serves as an instrument for teachers to inspire their students to create, critique, compare and predict, all higher-level intellectual behaviors, while composing across symbol systems. The work contains detailed classroom transcripts of strategies that…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Sociocultural Patterns, Current Events, Writing Workshops
International Encyclopedia of Educational Technology. Second Edition.
Plomp, Tjeerd, Ed.; Ely, Donald P., Ed. – 1996
This encyclopedia provides scholarly information on all aspects of educational technology. It treats integrating educational technology as a problem-solving process. The book consists of 123 papers by numerous authors, divided into five sections. Section 1, "Educational Technology: Definition and Conceptual Background," introduces educational…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Current Events, Educational Media, Educational Strategies
Issues in Social Studies: Voices from the Classroom.
White, Cameron, Ed. – 2000
This collection of essays, from Houston area educators, investigates and analyzes the state of social education, offering a critical and transformative perspective. Following a preface, chapters in the collection are: (1) "Addressing the Issues within Social Studies" (C. White); (2) "The Status of Social Studies Education" (C.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Classroom Techniques, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Cooperative Learning