Creating Democratic Classrooms: The Struggle to Integrate Theory and Practice

By Landon E. Beyer

In this first volume in the Practitioner Inquiry Series, seven teachers analyse their own efforts to integrate social, moral and political questions and issues into the public school classroom. Both... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807735183
• ISBN13: 9780807735183
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"

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Creating Democratic Classrooms

In this powerful new book [circa 1996],Creating Democratic Classrooms, the first volume in the Practitioner Inquiry Series, seven teachers analyze their own efforts to integrate social, moral, and political questions and issues into the public school classroom. The contributors - both new and veteran teachers - weigh the possibilities for making classrooms more responsive to the need for social justice, critical consciousness, and democratic values. By developing their own narratives on experience, these teachers reveal the successes and failures, rewards and frustrations, that are involves in pursuing democratic forms of classroom life. Providing a critical and incisive complement to the teachers' chapters id Editor Landon Beyer's analysis of the teacher education programs from these programs are invariably located. A concluding chapter synthesizes the work of these committed teachers and looks toward future possibilities. Contributors: Erin Roche, Ushma Shah, Joni Garlock, Noelle Hawk Jaddaoui, Krista Sorensen, Katie Poduska, and Mary Cunat. Creating Democratic Classrooms as a thoughtful, accessible, and compelling resource for graduate courses and professors involved with teacher education, foundations and the politics of education. --- from book's back cover