Making School with Children
eBook - PDF

Making School with Children

Engaging Learners to Think Critically

  1. 273 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Making School with Children

Engaging Learners to Think Critically

About this book

Making School with Children: Engaging Learners to Think Critically envisions a hopeful future where communities unite to support one another and create a better world. Inspired by Comber's (2016) reminder that young people should learn to work for justice from the outset of schooling, this book showcases a whole-school response. Readers will explore stories from K-6 classrooms, where students and teachers collaborated across grade levels to build critical literacy through civic-minded social action projects, driven by the children's inquiry questions, interests, and passions.

Making School with Children reflects Vasquez's (1994, 2014) belief that learners thrive when their education is relevant to their lives. By centering children's experiences, the book aims to foster what Routman (2023) describes as a "joyful culture of trusting relationships, respect, and celebration of learners' strengths." This approach not only enhances curriculum but also nurtures a dynamic relationship with the world, promoting change, progress, and the creation of new ideas.

The book is divided into two sections. The first section, comprising seven chapters, details the work done in each grade from kindergarten to sixth grade to negotiate civic-minded literacy learning that transcends mandated curricula. It concludes with lessons learned and their implications for other educational settings. The second section offers a collection of resources, including recommended children's books, teacher resources, teaching tips, and lesson plans, to support similar work in the readers' own settings.

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Yes, you can access Making School with Children by Carolyn Clarke,Vivian Maria Vasquez in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Didattica & Didattica per la prima infanzia. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Making School with Children
  3. Praise for Making School with Children: Engaging Learners to Think Critically
  4. Making School with Children: Engaging Learners to Think Critically
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Book Cover Art
  8. Contents
  9. List of Figures
  10. List of Tables
  11. About the Authors
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Introduction: “We’ll Figure it Out.” (Come from Away, 2013)
  14. 1 - Explorations of Fair and Unfair
  15. 2 - The Lego Project
  16. 3 - Fair Is Not Always the Same—Explorations From the Personal to the Social
  17. 4 - 3D Printing to Flowers for Ukraine
  18. 5 - Advocating for Self and Others
  19. 6 - The Boomer Bucks Anti-Bullying Campaign
  20. 7 - The Generative Kindness Campaign
  21. 8 - A Final Word About Making School With Children Beginning With the Everyday
  22. 9 - Postscript
  23. CLASSROOM RESOURCES TO BEGIN MAKING SCHOOL WITH CHILDREN
  24. References
  25. INDEX