Teachers College Record reviews Student Research for Community Change
Title: Student Research for Community Change
Author(s): William Tobin, Valerie Feit
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 9780807763803 Pages: 176 Year: 2020
Authors William Tobin and Valerie Feit begin Student research for community change: Tools to develop ethical thinking and analytic problem solving with a fascinating premise: schools should be places that encourage us to “be open to the possibility of the weird, on the lookout for what doesn’t make sense” (p. 3). Working together, they assert, educators and students can fight the “impulse to simply shrug our shoulders and move on” (p. 3) when encountering things that don’t add up or don’t seem fair or just. In other words, teachers can turn these moments of weirdness into opportunities to stretch the curriculum and connect with the questions that matter most to students
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Author(s): William Tobin, Valerie Feit
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 9780807763803 Pages: 176 Year: 2020
Authors William Tobin and Valerie Feit begin Student research for community change: Tools to develop ethical thinking and analytic problem solving with a fascinating premise: schools should be places that encourage us to “be open to the possibility of the weird, on the lookout for what doesn’t make sense” (p. 3). Working together, they assert, educators and students can fight the “impulse to simply shrug our shoulders and move on” (p. 3) when encountering things that don’t add up or don’t seem fair or just. In other words, teachers can turn these moments of weirdness into opportunities to stretch the curriculum and connect with the questions that matter most to students
Read the full review at Teachers College Record