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Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World textbook

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Rethinking Globalization:Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World textbook

I just read about this textbook from Rethinking Schools. It was published in 2002. This resource textbook teaches students 4th-12th grades social justice issues as an interconnected web. As the authors say in the introduction (which can be found online as well), (more…)

We Make the Road By Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

Monday, February 18th, 2008

We Make the Road By Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change consists of transcribed conversations between Paulo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. Referred to as a “talking book,” these transcribed conversations take the reader through these revolutionaries’ discussions of their formative years, their ideas about educational practice, and their beliefs about education and positive social change. (more…)