Think, Care, ACT

Teaching for a Peaceful Future

AvSusan Gelber Cannon

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Committed to teaching for peace and justice, the author brings to life a teaching approach that empowers youth:• to think critically and creatively about historical, current, and future issues,• to care about classmates and neighbors as well as the global community,• to act—locally and globally—for the greater good.Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future is readable, practical, conversational, and intimate. It will inspire readers to build a just and peaceful world.Think, Care, Act depicts the daily successes and struggles a peace educator undergoes in encouraging students to envision peace and gain tools to build a culture of peace. The author uses three imperatives—think, care, act—to infuse required curricula with peace, character, and multicultural concepts in daily activities throughout the year.Chapters address critical and creative thinking; media and political literacy; compassionate classroom and school climate; explorations of racism, gender issues, civil discourse, global citizenship, war, and peace; and school, community, and global social-action projects. Chapters include rationales, lesson expectations, and classroom “play-by-play.” Students’ feedback about the impact of lessons is also featured. With its combination of theory and practice Think, Care, Act is unique. It will motivate teachers, education students, and scholars to employ “think, care, act” frameworks to empower students to build a peaceful future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-07-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:352 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Peace Education
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Emerald Publishing Inc
ISBN:9781617354267

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Utbildningsstrategier och utbildningspolitik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

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