Grades K - 12 Foreword by Frances Moore Lapp Afterword by Peter McLaren What is a democratic classroom? For Cynthia McDermott and her colleagues it is a place where all of the participants–students, teachers, and paraprofessionals–have a voice in the decisions that are made. It is not a place of chaos, nor is it a place where authority figures dictate and govern classroom life. It's an environment where deliberate, conscious, caring, and ethical decisions are made for the well-being of all. 
In this, the first primer on democratic education, the contributors investigate some of the essential elements of a democratic classroom: reflection, self-evaluation, counseling, community building, consensus building, authentic projects, intrinsic practices. In each short chapter, teachers, teacher educators, and counselors reflect on what it means to teach for democracy–including Alfie Kohn, Peter McLaren, Shelley Berman, Hilton Smith, and others. Just as important, you hear from the students themselves, who explain why classrooms in which they have the freedom and opportunity to pose problems and work out solutions are the best environments for learning. Best of all, you'll discover strategies, ideas, suggestions, curriculum materials, and encouragement to help you get started or to enhance your current practices. 
The ideas expressed in Beyond the Silence are all classroom based and holistic, drawing on the cognitive, the physiological, and the spiritual. The book poses questions and offers suggestions. It recognizes that there are many ways to create a democratic classroom and describes a variety of possibilities. But all of the authors are in agreement: A democratic paradigm is what is needed in our schools. Readers will find their voices convincing and knowledgeable.

Beyond the Silence: Listening for Democracy

Education & Teaching

Lois Bridges Bird

Frances Moore Lappé

J. Cynthia McDermott

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

Meatless cookery has always provided good eating, delicious food. The key really is in these two words, high protein. "... makes all other cookbooks obsolete." -- Robert Rodale

Great Meatless Meals

Ballantine Books

"... policy briefs and analysis on the world food system and the inequalities that are caused by it."

Food First: Beyond The Myth Of Scarcity

Joseph Collins

Clean copy of terrific book from 1981

Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity

History

World

Diet for a Small Planet

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

In this completely revised and updated edition of the most authoritative book on world hunger, three of our foremost experts on food and agriculture expose and explode the myths that prevent us from effectively addressing the problem. Drawing on and distilling the extensive research of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), Lappé, Collins, and Rosset examine head-on the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries, as well as the misconceptions that have obscured our own national, social, and humanitarian interests. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-read style, World Hunger: Twelve Myths shakes many tenaciously held beliefs; but most important, it convinces readers that by standing together with the hungry we can advance not only humanitarian interests, but our own well-being.

World hunger: Twelve myths

Science & Math

Agricultural Sciences

GROVE PRESS

This is the 10th printing of the 1977 hardback edition.

Food first: Beyond the myth of scarcity

Houghton/Mifflin

Debates over whether more aid should be spent or more demanded of the receiving countries in return and outlines a constructive aid policy less likely to undermine U.S. foreign interests

Betraying the National Interest

Business & Money

Kevin Danaher

Rachel Schurman

Economics

Grove Press, Inc.

Mozambique and Tanzania: Asking the big questions

Institute For Food And Development Policy Publishing

Liberation Ecology: Reframing Six Disempowering Ideas That Keep Us From Aligning with Nature - Even Our Own

A Small Planet Media

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