Empowering our Students for the Future

Encouraging Self-Direction and Life-Long Learning

Scott D. Wurdinger, J. Cynthia McDermott, Kiel Harell, Hilton Smith

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781475845839
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

Educators of every kind such as school superintendents, principals, teachers, higher education practitioners, community organizers and even students will gain essential skills, resources and examples to encourage and support individual as well as collective empowerment from early childhood education through college in both traditional classrooms and in the broader community. Working toward the goal of empowering young people as active citizens, this collection of chapters presents voices from across the broad community of educators who share their successful individual work of methods and practices that empower young people to engage in their own agency. By using student centered practices in and out of the classroom, their stories demonstrate multiple ways to successfully achieve these ends. The book clearly and effectively presents these concepts: How to encourage self-directed learning; methods and examples of participatory practices and inquiry methods; strategies designing and supporting Problem Based Learning; models for civic engagement; organizing strategies; and practices related to Critical Race Theory. This collection can provide practitioners with strategies and skills that will encourage and develop self-confidence and self-direction in many arenas working together to create change in a democratic landscape as youth learn to use their power.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter One Empowering Students to Take Control through Project-Based Learning Scott D. Wurdinger
• Chapter Two The Promise of Action Civics in Closing the Civic Engagement Gap Arielle Jennings
• Chapter Three Engagement of Stakeholders in a Learning Community Avalon School Walter Enloe and David Blake Willis
• Chapter Four Finding a Direction, Creating Student-Driven Learning Culture Paul Tweed
• Chapter Five Have I Ever Stopped You? Fred Chapel
• Chapter Six Beyond Revolution Transforming Whole Schools to Foster Student Power Adam Fletcher
• Chapter Seven Empowering the Self-Perceived Powerless Reflections of a First-Year High School Science Teacher Kimberly K. Takagi
• Chapter Eight Empowering Students through Curriculum Development in the College Classroom Kiel Harell and Sara Lam
• Chapter Nine Preparing New Teachers to Radically Change Predictable and Unequal Outcomes for P–12 A Critical Race Theory Approach Timothy Berry
• Chapter Ten Engaging and Deschooling Students Promoting the Grande Passion through Failure and Mastery with Self-Determination Theory Pete Allison
• Chapter Eleven (Re)Design to Empower Students in the Classroom and at Scale Jeff Galle
• Chapter Twelve Creating a Foxfire-Like Project in Teacher Education Carlin Bell, Malaika Boyer, Fred Chapel, Jillian Eissler, Ryan Johnson, Muniza Khan, Diana Lesso, Jose Lovo, J. Cynthia McDermott, Zoe Morris, and Ian Stuart
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors