We, the Students and Teachers

Robert W. Maloy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the coauthor of several books, including (with Ruth-Ellen Verock-O'Loughlin, Sharon A. Edwards, and Beverly P. Woolf) Transforming Learning with New Technologies, Second Edition. Irene S. LaRoche is a history and social studies teacher at Amherst Regional Middle School in Amherst, Massachusetts.

"The key to the excellent potential of this book is its assertion that democratic teaching can be linked to content, especially historical content, not just to a generic notion of 'student-centered instruction.' The theory-to-practice emphasis is very explicit, as is the emphasis on the voices of the teachers and students who participated in the research. The book also takes a highly creative approach to its topic that I find very refreshing." — Elizabeth Washington, University of Florida"This is an important book. Maloy and LaRoche reveal the challenges that face historians as we grapple with increasingly fraught public and political perceptions of our discipline. Their strategies for reconstituting the classroom as a laboratory for instilling democratic values and practices are both ingenious and practical." — Dane Morrison, author of True Yankees: Sea Captains, the South Seas, and the Discovery of American Identity

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsPreface: The 7 Cs of Democratic TeachingIntroduction: Defining Democracy and Democratic Teaching1. Contrasting: Curriculum Coverage and Uncoverage2. Conducting: Student Engagement Flipped Classrooms3. Collaborating: Decision Making and Power Sharing4. Conversing: Conversations, Discussions, and Student Voice5. Conferring: Student Feedback to Guide Teaching Practice6. Co-Constructing: Digital Technologies and Student Inquiry7. Connecting: Civic Learning and Community EngagementConclusion: Building Democratic Spaces for Teaching and LearningReferencesIndex