Hungry Minds in Hard Times : Educating for Complexity for Students of Poverty
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Counterpoints
ISBN-10
0820455016
ISBN-13
9780820455013
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 29th, 2002
Print length
191 Pages
Weight
304 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.80 x 1.30 cms
Ksh 4,350.00
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Hungry Minds in Hard Times is, in part, a story of liberatory education for poor, working-class, rural, middle school students. Investigating the reopening of a local coal mine, a group of eighth graders – with teacher Bill Elasky and university professor Rosalie M. Romano – explored the contradictory, contentious, and conflicting perspectives of community members and the coal company. Multiple viewpoints amplified the complexity of the local issue and provided the backdrop for critical literacy, trust and dialogue, and a sense of connection and affinity. This book challenges the belief that a diet of disconnected facts provides nourishment for students from poor and working-class backgrounds. Instead, teaching through complexity is acknowledged as a subversive, necessary act that interrupts the dominant value system, which keeps failing as a way of life for rural and inner city students.
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