| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 172 pages) : illustrations |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Understanding and addressing social justice concerns has become a central focus in an increasing number of schools as well as teacher education programs. The activities in this book are grounded in the recognition that personal experience and engagement is essential for meaningful intercultural learning and social justice awareness to occur. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Kenneth Cushner and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Futures window / Kenneth Cushner -- What is a family? / Martha Lash -- Ideal types and transgressors: reinterpreting the "family tree" experience / Janice Kroeger -- Do you see what I see?: Using critical role-play to help prospective teachers view activities from multiple perspectives / Monica Miller Marsh -- From Chernobyl to Fukushima: teaching for global justice / Frans H. Doppen and Matthew S. Hollstein -- Global learning wiki / Chia-Ling Kuo -- The arrow always points to the self: preservice teacher learning through blurred geopolitical identities / Jubin Rahatzad, Hannah Sasser, JoAnn Phillion, and Suniti Sharma -- The coalition for creative projects / Schea N. Fissel -- Conversation partner experience: a win-win culture learning encounter / Kenneth Cushner -- The intercultural market: an exercise in the development of cultural intelligence / Keith Sakuda -- What lies at the bottom ...????? An inquiry-based nature of science (NOS) activity with a multicultural twist / Rajlakshmi Ghosh -- Sexuality, gender, and families in the animal kingdom: lessons from the wild / Sara Raven -- Critically examining gender roles: deconstructing the myth of "boys will be boys, girls will be girls" / Alyse C. Hachey and Yolanda Medina -- When I grow up, I'll work in the factory just like my daddy: examining teaching practices that perpetuate the social class status quo / Yolanda Medina and Alyse C. Hachey -- Middle class mentality: using an online course assignment to teach students to know self first, then other / Randall E. Osborne and Paul Kriese -- Getting to know you: a simulation to understand school context / Joanne Caniglia, Ph. D. -- Person like me / Jason C. Fitzgerald and April A. Mattix -- Crossings, bridges and borderlands: an experiential assignment for multicultural education / Sofia A. Villenas -- Follow the multicolored brick road to cultural competence / Nancy P. Gallavan -- What is my cultural identity? / Debra L. Clark -- Who am I? Exploring students' social identities and social inequalities in cultural contexts / Jennifer L. Fisette -- Bricks in a backpack: respecting the invisible / Diane M. Vetter -- Preservice teachers are students, too: developing awareness of white identity and privilege to facilitate change for inclusivity and equality / Tracy Lara. |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Activity programs.
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Group identity -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- United States.
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Multicultural education -- Activity programs.
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EDUCATION -- Elementary.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cushner, Kenneth. From the margins to the mainstream. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Education, A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2014] 9781475808926 (DLC) 2013049336 (OCoLC)860879520 |
| ISBN |
1306637848 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306637848 (electronic bk.) |
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9781475808940 (electronic bk.) |
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1475808941 (electronic bk.) |
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