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Pockets of Hope How Students and Teachers Change the World
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Eileen de los Reyes, Patricia A. Gozemba
ISBN: 0-89789-523-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-523-1
232 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2001
List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £73.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Responding to the conservative agenda of high-stakes testing, charter schools, and vouchers, Pockets of Hope offers an alternative vision of education reform. It provides an intimate portrayal of day-to-day teaching and learning in six educational projects that span both classroom and community-based settings, thereby giving readers a genuine understanding of the possibilities inherent in democratic education.

The six projects examined herein demonstrate the ways in which education can be an empowering experience for students, providing them with the academic, social, and political knowledge and skills they need to become active, engaged democratic citizens. Competent, creative, and courageous, the teachers in these projects challenge their students to think critically about provocative academic questions, political dilemmas, and social issues, and their students rise to the occasion, responding with curiosity and insight. By purposively connecting the world in which they and their students live with the work of their democratic classrooms, these teachers encourage students to explore how they can contribute to their communities, making learning relevant and exciting. The stories of teachers and students told here will inspire educators, students, parents, and others concerned with the future of education as they seek to counter the conservative rhetoric that shapes educational reform today.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Education as a Practice of Freedom
    Breaking the Cycle, Rising to the Question
    Crossing the Bridge: Peer Education and Mediation
    Moving from the Field of Terror to the Field of Hope: Project 10 East, A Gay-Straight Alliance
    'Aloha-Aina
    Spinning a Magical Web in Rural New Hampshire: Appalachian Mountain Teen Project
    No Ordinary Teacher: Helen Lewis of Highlander
About the Author: EILEEN DE LOS REYES is Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.

PATRICIA A. GOZEMBA is Professor of English and member of the Women's Studies department, Salem State College.
LCC Class: 370
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