Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780942961546ISBN:0942961544
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Rethinking Schools Ltd
Date Published: 2004-03-01
ISBN-13:9780942961546ISBN:0942961544
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"I read this book because I wanted some ideas for the sample teaching lesson for my New York City Teaching Fellows interview. It wasn't that helpful for that purpose as most of the example lessons involve multi-class-period, or multi-week lessons/projects that couldn't be condensed into 5 minutes, but it was still pretty enlightening to see all the ideas that educators were coming up with to infuse their lessons with social justice concepts (and often, ones that were acutely relevant to students' lives).
The good:
* Pretty damn empowering, especially the story of students calculating the space to student ration between their school and a school in the same district with a significantly different student body in terms of race and economic background.
* Lots of lesson plans, handouts, and things that could be used to recreate lessons in one's own classroom.
* Articles from a lot of different perspectives. I thought the one that was written by a teacher who taught in an affluent prep school was great. It reminds us that social justice (and an education grounded in social justice) isn't just the concern of poor people, or people of color, or anyone identified or identifying as oppressed. Its everyone's concern.
* I always thought Math was fun, but it wasn't engaging or culturally relevant in the way that history could be. This book argues, and provides examples, for teaching across the curriculum and making lessons that aren't exclusively about numbers, history, or civics.
What I missed:
* A ton of the ideas for lessons were examples of applications of skills already learned. I would have liked to see ideas about how to teach more fundamental math skills. I think the Algebra Project (which has its own article in the book) does a good job of this, though, afaik the social justice component of their work comes more from organizing around education access than the pedagogy.
* A lot of the examples involved statistical analysis which is important and hugely relevant for both math and cultural literacy. Still, I would have liked to have seen more algebra, calculus, or even arithmetic-based ideas.
* I haven't spent much time in a primary or secondary school math classroom, but from what I've heard, kids' skills can vary widely. I didn't read much about how this was addressed in the lessons. Many of them struck me as requiring a fair amount of math proficiency coming into the projects or applications."
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