Description
Product ID: | 9781071835944 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Corwin Teaching Essentials |
Title: | Worldwise Learning |
Subtitle: | A Teacher's Guide to Shaping a Just, Sustainable Future |
Authors: | Author: Carla Marschall, Elizabeth O. Crawford |
Page Count: | 360 |
Subjects: | Curriculum planning and development, Curriculum planning & development, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Create inclusive, democratic classrooms that prepare knowledgeable, compassionate, and engaged global citizens. Today’s global challenges—climate change, food and water insecurity, social and economic inequality, and a global pandemic—demand that educators prepare students to become compassionate, critical thinkers who can explore alternative futures. Their own, others’, and the planet’s well-being depend on it. Worldwise Learning presents a “Pedagogy for People, Planet, and Prosperity” that supports K-8 educators in nurturing “Worldwise Learners”: students who both deeply understand and purposefully act when learning about global challenges. Coupling theory with practice, this book builds educators’ understanding of how curriculum and meaningful interdisciplinary learning can be organized around local, global, and intercultural issues, and provides a detailed framework for making those issues come alive in the classroom. Richly illustrated, each innovative chapter asserts a transformational approach to teaching and learning following an original three-part inquiry cycle, and includes:
Nautilus Gold Award Winner (Books for a Better World) in Social Sciences & Education Today’s global challenges—climate change, food and water insecurity, social and economic inequality, and a global pandemic—demand that educators prepare students to become compassionate, critical thinkers who can explore alternative futures. Their own, others’, and the planet’s well-being depend on it. Worldwise Learning presents a “Pedagogy for People, Planet, and Prosperity” that supports K-8 educators in nurturing “Worldwise Learners”: students who both deeply understand and purposefully act when learning about global challenges. Coupling theory with practice, this book builds educators’ understanding of how curriculum and meaningful interdisciplinary learning can be organized around local, global, and intercultural issues, and provides a detailed framework for making those issues come alive in the classroom. Richly illustrated, each innovative chapter asserts a transformational approach to teaching and learning following an original three-part inquiry cycle, and includes:
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Imprint Name: | Corwin Press Inc |
Publisher Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-12-03 |