Listening to and learning from students : possibilities for teaching, learning, and curriculum / edited by Brian D. Schultz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schultz, Brian D.

Series:

Landscapes of education.

Landscapes of education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student-centered learning--United States.

Student-centered learning.

Student participation in curriculum planning--United States.

Student participation in curriculum planning.

Communication in education--United States.

Communication in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book embraces the idea of listening to and learning from students. Although many educational theorists have long argued that incorporating children's perspectives about teaching and curriculum has the potential for increasing students' interest and participation in learning, their radical perspectives are still ignored or dismissed in theory and practice. Through featured essays, historical excerpts, and provocative poetry, this collection provides research literature and inquiry ideas that ought to be part of educational debates, policy discussions, and decision makings. Articulated through thoughtful prose and discerning analysis, youth, teachers, and scholars featured in this collection illuminate the power and promise of not only listening to and learning from students, but also acting upon the insights of students. This book calls for the 21st century educational workers--teachers, educators, parents, community workers, administrators, and policy makers--to perceive students as massive reservoirs of knowledge that invigorate possibilities for teaching, learning, and curriculum in the contested educational landscape.

Contents:

Acknowledgements and preface

Foreword: Listen and learn / William C. Ayers

Chapter 1. Curricular possibilities: Listening to, hearing, and learning from students / Brian D. Schultz

Chapter 2. Interlude: From pedagogy of the oppressed / Paulo Freire

Chapter 3. Confronting limit situations in a youth/adult educational research collaborative / Tara M. Brown and Kevin Galeas

Chapter 4. Interlude: From the mouths of babes / Kevin Coval

Chapter 5. Learning to walk quietly / Cathy Coulter

Chapter 6. Interlude: My first voyage / L. Thomas Hopkins

Chapter 7. A shorty teaching teachers: One kid's perspective about keepin' it real in the classroom / Brian D. Schultz and Paris Banks

Chapter 8. Interlude: What is a school? From I learn from children / Caroline Pratt

Chapter 9. Ninth-grade student voices in a social action project: They went for us, they cared / Shira Eve Epstein

Chapter 10. Interlude: Hi(story) & hope: how the stories of our individual and collective pasts determine what we believe is possible / kahlil almustafa

Chapter 11. They think kids have nothing to say / Lloyd Thomas

Chapter 12. Listen / Miracle Graham

Chapter 13. Challenging test-prep pedagogy: Urban high school students educate pre-service teachers using liberatory pedagogy / Louie F. Rodríguez

Chapter 14. Interlude: From prospectus for a summer freedom school program / Charles Cobb

Chapter 15. Lessons from the journey: Exploring citizenship through active civic involvement / Jennifer Ponder, Michelle Vander Veldt, and Genell Lewis-Ferrell

Chapter 16. Interlude: A.d.d. / Rafael Casal

Chapter 17. Let my soul spit: Young people write for reflection and inspiration / Susan Wilcox

Chapter 18. Interlude: Things I wish I told my grandma / kahlil almustafa

Chapter 19. Constructing and constricting teachers: Ratemyteachers.com as a knotted space of the educational imaginary / Jake Burdick

Chapter 20. Interlude: The moral training from methods of instruction / John Dewey

Chapter 21. Teaching john dewey as a utopian pragmatist while learning from my students / William H. Schubert

Chapter 22. Interlude: Desirable content for a curriculum development syllabus today: The tyler rationale reconsidered / Ralph W. Tyler

Chapter 23. Student-led solutions to the dropout crisis: A report by voices of youth in chicago education / Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE). Afterword: Prayer for the First Day of Chicago Public School / Kevin Coval. Permissions

About the contributors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-61735-173-3

OCLC:

732957273