| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) |
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SUNY series, democracy and education |
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SUNY series, democracy and education.
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| Contents |
The talk and the walk of democratic teacher education / John M. Novak -- The Institute for Democracy in Education: supporting democratic teachers / George Wood -- Foxfire Teachers' Networks (viewed through Maxine Greene's The dialectic of freedom) / Hilton Smith -- Doing women's studies: possibilities and challenges in democratic praxis / Cecilia Reynolds -- Democratic empowerment and secondary teacher education / Thomas E. Kelly -- Teaching for democracy: preparing teachers to teach democracy / Keith Hillkirk -- Deliberately developing democratic teachers in a year / Barbara McEwan --An institute for independence through action, process, and theory / J. Cynthia McDermott -- Only by living them / Heidi Watts -- Control and contradiction in democratic teacher education: classroom and curriculum approaches / Suzanne SooHoo, Thomas C. Wilson -- Democracy in education: a Foxfire experience / Janet C. Fortune -- The democratic process in teacher education: two case studies / Lisa A. Bloom, Mary Jean Ronan Herzog -- Skin-game: race and racism in teaching and teacher education / William Ayers -- Radical change in assessment: a catalyst for democratic education / Carol Lieber, Ed Mikel, Sunny Pervil -- Prospecting for democratic teacher education / John M. Novak |
| Summary |
Annotation This book captures the spirit, richness, and diversity of democratic teacher educators as they put their ideas into practice in creative and persistent ways. Using a diverse group of democratic educational projects from throughout North America, this volume taps into varied ways teacher educators from large state institutions, small rural colleges, urban private universities, new academic programs, special teacher development centers, and public voluntary citizen organizations are working to create the resources and opportunities for teachers to develop the skills and confidence necessary to promote sustained democratic processes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Teachers -- Training of -- United States.
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Democracy -- Study and teaching -- United States
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Teaching -- Philosophy
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EDUCATION -- Research.
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Democracy -- Study and teaching
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Teachers -- Training of
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Teaching -- Philosophy
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Novak, John M.
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| ISBN |
0585044716 |
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9780585044712 |
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