The Activist Learner

Author : Jeffrey D. Wilhelm,Whitney Douglas,Sara W. Fry
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780807755952

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This dynamic book explores a variety of ways teachers can integrate service learning to enliven their classroom, meet the unique developmental needs of their students, and satisfy the next generation of standards and assessements. The authors demonstrate how inquiry-based teaching with service learning outcomes cultivates, requires, and rewards literacy, as well as important skills like perspective taking and compassion. Through the pursuit of service learning projects, students develop and apply literacy and disciplinary knowledge, experience real-world implications, and learn to think in more connected ways. At the same time, students acquire literacies essential for creating a culture of civic engagement and for mastering the Common Core.

Author : Jeffrey D. Wilhelm,Whitney Douglas,Sara W. Fry
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807773383

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The Activist Learner by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm,Whitney Douglas,Sara W. Fry Pdf

This dynamic book explores a variety of ways teachers can integrate service learning to enliven their classroom, meet the unique developmental needs of their students, and satisfy the next generation of standards and assessments. The authors demonstrate how inquiry-based teaching with service learning outcomes cultivates, requires, and rewards literacy, as well as important skills like perspective taking and compassion. Through the pursuit of service learning projects, students develop and apply literacy and disciplinary knowledge, experience real-world implications, and learn to think in more connected ways. At the same time, students acquire literacies essential for creating a culture of civic engagement and for mastering the Common Core. A powerful blend of practical, theoretical, and inspirational, The Activ(ist) Learner: Provides examples that combine inquiry and service learning to help students develop and apply literacy and disciplinary knowledge.Helps teachers move from informational teaching to sociocultural apprenticeship teaching.Describes a way of teaching that develops students’ intrapersonal and interpersonal skills.Includes templates for conducting inquiry units and charts with CCSS connections. “Our students are indeed the future trustees of our societies, so why not engage them early on in positive activism? This book, a collaborative conversation that speaks to the challenge and the opportunity that our classrooms provide us, offers an engaging look at how a shift in thinking can positively impact our future.” —Clifton L. Taulbert, lecturer and author of Eight Habits of the Heart “In an era where everyone has an opinion about education, Wilhelm, Douglas, and Fry take us back to the root of the word educate: to nurture and to lead forth. The Activ(ist) Learner reminds us that service learning allows teachers and students to collaborate through inquiry to ask deep, substantive questions, and then take actionable steps to make a difference in their schools, communities, and the world. If you are truly interested in education—nurturing and leading—then The Activ(ist) Learner will help you begin a transformative journey.” —Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University

Author : Aziz Choudry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442607934

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Learning Activism by Aziz Choudry Pdf

What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and theorizing that goes on within them. Drawing on Marxist, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial perspectives on knowledge and power, the book highlights how activists and organizers learn through doing, and fills the gap between social movement practice as it occurs on the ground, critical adult education scholarship, and social movement theorizing. Examples include anti-colonial currents within global justice organizing in the Asia-Pacific, activist research and education in social movements and people's organizations in the Philippines, Migrant and immigrant worker struggles in Canada, and the Quebec student strike. The result is a book that carves out a new space for intellectual life in activist practice.

Author : Colette Cann,Eric DeMeulenaere
Publisher : Myers Education Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781975501419

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The Activist Academic by Colette Cann,Eric DeMeulenaere Pdf

Donald Trump’s election forced academics to confront the inadequacy of promoting social change through the traditional academic work of research, writing, and teaching. Scholars joined crowds of people who flooded the streets to protest the event. The present political moment recalls intellectual forbearers like Antonio Gramsci who, imprisoned during an earlier fascist era, demanded that intellectuals committed to justice “can no longer consist in eloquence ... but in active participation in practical life, as constructor, organizer, ‘permanent persuader’ and not just a simple orator" (Gramsci, 1971, p. 10). Indeed, in an era of corporate media and “alternative facts,” academics committed to justice cannot simply rely on disseminating new knowledge, but must step out of the ivory tower and enter the streets as activists. The Activist Academic serves as a guide for merging activism into academia. Following the journey of two academics, the book offers stories, frameworks and methods for how scholars can marry their academic selves, involved in scholarship, teaching and service, with their activist commitments to justice, while navigating the lived realities of raising families and navigating office politics. This volume invites academics across disciplines to enter into a dialogue about how to take knowledge to the streets. Perfect for courses such as: Introduction to Social Theory | Social Foundations | Certificate in Public Scholarship | Practicing Public Scholarship | Reimagining Public Engagement | Decentering the Public Humanities hrClick HERE to see a video of the book launch, moderated by Monisha Bajaj for Imagining America, with contributions from Margo Okazawa-Rey and John Saltmarsh. hrWatch the #CompactNationPod interview, which runs between minutes 9:35 and 48:45. In this episode, Marisol Morales chats with Colette Cann and Eric DeMeulenaere, as they share the true stories of their lives as activists, scholars, and parents who are trying to push forward social change through academic work.Compact Nation Podcast · The Activist Academic hr What does it mean to be both an activist and an academic? Watch the FreshEd podcast Becoming an Activist Academic, which features authors Colette Cann & Eric DeMeulenaere discussing their own journeys as a guide for merging activism and academia. hr

Author : Peter Honey,Alan Mumford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Executives
ISBN : 1902899075

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Learning Styles Questionnaire by Peter Honey,Alan Mumford Pdf

Author : Anthea Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1914568036

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The Entangled Activist by Anthea Lawson Pdf

Anthea Lawson offers a timely and eye-opening vision for transformative work. A profound call to acknowledge our entanglement with the world and possibilities for action that go beyond righteousness and reactivity.

Author : A. A. Choudry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Knowledge, Sociology of
ISBN : 9781442607903

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Learning Activism by A. A. Choudry Pdf

Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice.

Author : Teresa Budworth,Waddah Shihab Ghanem Al Hashemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317937432

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Reflective Learning by Teresa Budworth,Waddah Shihab Ghanem Al Hashemi Pdf

Reflective Learning is the essential reference for health and safety practitioners wanting to develop their professional skills and practice. Whether you are a new practitioner looking to expand your knowledge or an experienced professional seeking to build on existing skills, this book is indispensable. Step by step, Reflective Learning guides you through the principles to help you to learn and improve your ability to reflect on your past experiences. The use of clear explanations, diagrams and practical tools throughout help you to improve your understanding and advance your professional development. The only book on reflective learning to focus on health and safety Written by experts in the field of health and safety A cost effective way of learning and developing for health and safety practitioners

Author : Dip Kapoor,Aziz Choudry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230112650

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Learning from the Ground Up by Dip Kapoor,Aziz Choudry Pdf

The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces.

Author : Aziz Choudry
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771134361

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Activists and the Surveillance State by Aziz Choudry Pdf

The use of secret police, security agencies and informers to spy on, disrupt and undermine opposition to the dominant political and economic order has a long history. This book reflects on the surveillance, harassment and infiltration that pervades the lives of activists, organizations and movements that are labelled as ‘threats to national security’. Activists and scholars from the UK, South Africa, Canada, the US, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand expose disturbing stories of political policing to question what lies beneath state surveillance. Problematizing the social amnesia that exists within progressive political networks and supposed liberal democracies, Activists and the Surveillance State shows that ultimately, movements can learn from their own repression, developing a critical and complex understanding of the Nature of states, capital and democracy today that can inform the struggles of tomorrow.

Author : T. Ollis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137016447

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A Critical Pedagogy of Embodied Education by T. Ollis Pdf

Explores the differences and similarities between two groups: lifelong activists who have been engaged in campaigns and socials movements over many years and circumstantial activists, those protestors who come to activism due to a series of life circumstances. Outlines the pedagogy of activism and the process of learning to become an activist.

Author : Larry Bencze,Steve Alsop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400743601

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Activist Science and Technology Education by Larry Bencze,Steve Alsop Pdf

This collection examines issues of agency, power, politics and identity as they relate to science and technology and education, within contemporary settings. Social, economic and ecological critique and reform are examined by numerous contributing authors, from a range of international contexts. These chapters examine pressing pedagogical questions within socio-scientific contexts, including petroleum economies, food justice, health, environmentalism, climate change, social media and biotechnologies. Readers will discover far reaching inquiries into activism as an open question for science and technology education, citizenship and democracy. The authors call on the work of prominent scholars throughout the ages, including Bourdieu, Foucault, Giroux, Jasanoff, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Rancière and Žižek. The application of critical theoretical scholarship to mainstream practices in science and technology education distinguishes this book, and this deep, theoretical treatment is complemented by many grounded, more pragmatic exemplars of activist pedagogies. Practical examples are set within the public sphere, within selected new social movements, and also within more formal institutional settings, including elementary and secondary schools, and higher education. These assembled discussions provide a basis for a more radically reflexive reworking of science and technology education. Educational policy makers, science education scholars, and science and technology educators, amongst others, will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.

Author : Peter Honey,Alan Mumford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190289927X

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Learning Styles Questionnaire by Peter Honey,Alan Mumford Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004512740

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Activist Pedagogy and Shared Education in Divided Societies by Anonim Pdf

Conceived through collaboration by activist academics from Israel and Northern Ireland, this book draws from experience to offer practical and theoretical insights and programs for promoting activist pedagogy for shared learning and shared life in divided societies.

Author : Alan S. Tinkler,Barri E. Tinkler,Virginia M. Jagla,Jean R. Strait
Publisher : IAP
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681233758

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Service?Learning to Advance Social Justice in a Time of Radical Inequality by Alan S. Tinkler,Barri E. Tinkler,Virginia M. Jagla,Jean R. Strait Pdf

When considering inequality, one goal for educators is to enhance critical engagement to allow learners an opportunity to participate in an inquiry process that advances democracy. Service?learning pedagogy offers an opportunity to advance engaged?learning opportunities within higher education. This is particularly important given the power dynamics that are endemic within conversations about education, including the conversations around the Common Core, charter schools, and the privatization of education. Critical inquiry is central to the ethos of service?learning pedagogy, a pedagogy that is built upon community partner participation and active reflection. Within higher education, service?learning offers an important opportunity to enhance practice within the community, allowing students to engage stakeholders and youth which is particularly important given the dramatic inequalities that are endemic in today’s society.