Can of Worms : Fearless Conversations with Toddlers

Ann Pelo

Nick Terrones

Margie Carter

Exchange Press, Incorporated

Rethinking Early Childhood Education is alive with the conviction that teaching young children involves values and vision. This anthology collects inspiring stories about social justice teaching with young children. Included here is outstanding writing from childcare teachers, early-grade public school teachers, scholars, and parents. Early childhood is when we develop our core dispositions the habits of thinking that shape how we live. This book shows how educators can nurture empathy, an ecological consciousness, curiosity, collaboration, and activism in young children. It invites readers to rethink early childhood education, reminding them that it is inseparable from social justice and ecological education.

Rethinking Early Childhood Education

Business & Money

Economics

Rethinking Schools

Five years in the making, A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution--as well as on people who are working to make things better. At a time when it's becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what's wrong and imagine solutions. Chapter 1: The Whole Thing Is Connected We can continue the enclosure of the commons, begun so long ago the privatization and commodification of nature or we can recognize the fundamental truth that we are all connected and that there is nothing private about how we treat the Earth, or each other. Chapter 2: Grounding Our Teaching Grounding our students in their communities doesn t just connect them to nature; it also connects them to the ways their communities have been battered by powerful interests, and how race and class have shaped those communities. Chapter 3: Facing Climate Chaos Articles in this chapter will help students recognize the significance of the climate crisis and see that the people being hit the hardest are the ones least responsible. Through various activities students consider root causes of the crisis in order to critically think about the deep social changes we will need to respond fairly and decisively. Chapter 4: Burning the Future Burning the Future has a metaphorical ring, but it s no metaphor it s literally true: We are burning the future. This chapter deals with the overall issue of fossil fuels and then is divided into three sections: coal, oil, and natural gas and fracking. Yes, we are burning the future. But nothing is inevitable. This is a key lesson from history, and from the activities included in this chapter. Chapter 5: Teaching in a Toxic World Articles in this chapter describe how toxic trespass happens in far too many ways in our lives here and around the world. Because of the intimate nature of the toxic trespass, students first reaction may be self-protection or individual consumer choices, rather than collective action. This chapter provides abundant evidence that people are taking collective action. Chapter 6: Food, Farming, and the Earth Food embodies many of the ecological problems and social injustices highlighted throughout the book. And similarly, it calls out for activism that recognizes the interconnectedness of these issues.

A People's Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching About the Environmental Crisis

Science & Math

Linda Christensen

David Suzuki

Winona LaDuke

Bill Bigelow

Bob Peterson

Larry Miller

bill-mckibben

Tim Swinehart

Van Jones

Vandana Shiva

Amy Lindahl

Hardy Thames

Jeff Goodell

Robert Kunzig

Sandra Steingraber

Tony Marks-Block

Earth Sciences

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media begins from the premise that the popular is political. Whether it s Disney and Barbie, or Snapchat and Vine, youth navigate, shape, and repurpose popular culture. This updated collection of teaching articles and critical commentary is written by and for educators. The authors consider the role in students lives of films, music, and books, as well as popular culture artifacts like toys, and how these materials teach children. In each article, authors critique and rethink the connections among race, class, gender, sexuality, power, and schooling. The second edition includes revised articles, nine new articles, and an updated list of resources. Chapters are organized into four major themes to make the text more streamlined: Part 1: Commercialism, Corporations, and Youth Part 2: Politics, Violence, and Sanitized History Part 3: Texts, Toys, and Representation Part 4: Teaching, Talking Back, and Taking Action

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media Second Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Renée Watson

HERBERT KOHL

Grace Cornell Gonzales

Elizabeth Marshall

Özlem Sensoy

Rachel Cloues

Margot Pepper

Sudie Hofman

Social Sciences

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