"School is Life, Not a Preparation for Life" - John Dewey

Democratic Practices in Middle Grades Education

Kathleen Roney, Richard P. Lipka, Kathleen Roney, Richard P. Lipka

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781648023781
  9781648023798
• eBook ISBN:
  9781648023804
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

Teacher-pupil planning means teachers and students working in a partnership to articulate a problem/concern, develop objectives, locate materials/resources, and evaluate progress. The intent of this volume of Middle Level Education and the Self-Enhancing School titled, "School is Life, Not a Preparation for Life"-John Dewey: Democratic Practices in Middle Grades Education, is to take the thoughts about the middle grades school curriculum presented in volume one (Middle Grades Curriculum: Voices and Visions of the Self-Enhancing School) and demonstrate the efforts taking place in teacher education programs and middle grades classrooms today. Volume two is organized into two parts, efforts within teacher education programs and efforts of practitioners in the middle grades classrooms.

We asked authors in both contexts to address the following questions:

1. Antecedents: What knowledge, skills and dispositions must be in place in all stakeholders to have teacher-pupil planning serve a central role in the middle grades teacher education program or middle grades classroom?

2. Implementation: What does the teacher-pupil planning process look like within your teacher education program or middle grades classroom?

3. Outcomes: What benefits (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are derived from the implementation of teacher-pupil planning in your teacher education program or your middle grades classroom?

Table of contents

• Cover
• “School is Life, Not a Preparation for Life”—John Dewey: Democratic Practices in Middle Grades Education
• Middle Level Education and the Self-Enhancing School
• “School is Life, Not a Preparation for Life”—John Dewey: Democratic Practices in Middle Grades Education
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Preface
• 1. Introduction: The What and Why of Teacher Pupil Planning
• 2. Our Rules, Our Curriculum, Our Assessments: Rationale and Strategies for Creating Democratic Classrooms
• 3. Cultivating Teacher and Student Agency Using a Human-Centered Design Approach: Stories of Teachers-in-Training
• 4. Encouraging Deep Learning for Middle Grades Education Candidates: Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as Self-Study
• 5. Simulating Teacher-Pupil Planning in a Middle Level Teacher Preparation Program
• 6. Teacher Education For Democracy & Teacher-Pupil Planning In Middle Level Social Studies
• 7. Creating Music Videos: Teachers and Students Working Collaboratively Across the Arts
• 8. A Working Guide To Teacher-Pupil Planning
• Meet the Authors