Think, Care, ACT

Susan Gelber Cannon is an American educator with over 25 years of classroom experience. Her special fields of interest are character, global, multicultural, and peace education: developing teaching methods to help children to think, care, and act honorably and globally. Trained in moral development at Harvard Graduate School of Education, she teaches history and English, as well as Model UN, peacemaking, and debate at The Episcopal Academy, near Philadelphia, PA, in the United States. Cannon has also taught middle school students and trained teachers in China and Japan. She gives presentations and workshops on peace education strategies at conferences globally. She and her husband (the artist J. Kadir Cannon) initiated a Citizens’ Peace Tour in 2006, to Japan, China, Canada, Denmark, and Norway.

• Foreword; Ian Harris.Introduction: Teaching Students to Think, Care, and Act for a Peaceful Future.Part I. Think!Chapter 1. Critical Thinking from September Through June.Chapter 2. Media Literacy and Current Events: Examining 9-11 and Presidential Elections.Chapter 3. Using Critical Imagination: The History Utopia Project and The Giver Utopia Project.Part II. Care!Chapter 4. Creating the A-Team: Building the School-Wide Safety Net of Care for Students, Teachers, and Families.Chapter 5. Reading Multicultural, Historical, and Controversial Literature to Enhance Empathy.Chapter 6. Creating a Caring Classroom and Global Community with Poetry and Prose.Part III. Act!Chapter 7. Citizenship Action Projects in History Class.Chapter 8. Student Council Initiatives in Middle School.Chapter 9. Empowering Elective Courses: Debate, Model UN, PeaceJam.Afterword: Lessons from a Global Peace Education Sabbatical.Appendix: Annotated Bibliography of Resources for Teachers and Students.References.Acknowledgements.Index