Teaching to change the world

Teaching to Change the World is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, social justice-oriented introduction to education and teaching, and the challenges and opportunities they present. Both foundational and practical, the chapters are organized around conventional topics but in a way that consistently integrates a coherent story that explains why schools are as they are. Taking the position that a hopeful, democratic future depends on ensuring that all students learn, the text pays particular attention to inequalities associated with race, social class, language, gender, and other social categories and explores teachers' role in addressing them.This thoroughly revised fifth edition remains a vital introduction to the profession for a new generation of teachers who seek to become purposeful, knowledgeable practitioners in our ever-changing educational landscape--for those teachers who see the potential for education to change the world.

List of figures, concept tables, and focal points -- Preface -- About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Democracy, diversity, and inequity. 1. The U.S. schooling dilemma: diversity, inequity, and democratic values -- 2. History and culture: how expanding expectations and powerful ideologies shape schooling in the United States -- 3. Politics and philosophy: the struggle over the school curriculum -- 4. Policy and law: rules that schools live by -- Part II: The practice of teaching to change the world. 5. The subject matters: constructing knowledge across the content areas -- 6. Instruction: teaching and learning across the content areas -- 7. Assessment: measuring what matters -- 8. Classrooms as communities: developing caring and democratic relationships -- Part III: The context of teaching to change the world. 9. The school culture: where good teaching makes sense -- 10. School structure: sorting students and opportunities to learn -- 11. The community: engaging with families and neighborhoods -- 12. Teaching to change the world: a profession and a hopeful struggle -- Bibliography -- Photo credits -- Index.