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Waring, Scott M., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Educators across subject areas are striving to integrate primary sources into their pedagogy and teaching. Yet, despite their importance to authentic disciplined inquiry, the implementation of primary source activities in the pre-K-12 classroom has been limited. This lack of utilization can largely be attributed to the perception that these…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Waitoller, Federico R., Ed.; King Thorius, Kathleen A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Asset-based pedagogies, such as culturally relevant/sustaining teaching, are frequently used to improve the educational experiences of students of color and to challenge the white curriculum that has historically informed school practices. Yet asset-based pedagogies have evaded important aspects of students' culture and identity: those related to…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Minority Group Students, Teaching Methods, Students with Disabilities
Vaughan, Kelly P., Ed.; Nuñez, Isabel, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2023
In this collection of writing and reflection, readers are invited to reclaim the connection between curriculum studies and the work of educators in schools and society. As the curriculum field has grown more complex and theoretical, our schools have become more corporatized, standardized, and dehumanized. This volume focuses on curriculum theory's…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Van Meeteren, Beth Dykstra, Ed.; Peterson, Sherri, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
The premiere book in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series introduces the Infant Toddler Inquiry Learning Model, a new way to think about how young children (birth-age 3) explore, think, and learn STEM concepts. The book also demonstrates how the Inquiry Teaching Model can guide teachers in implementing STEM experiences for this age group.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Infants, Toddlers, Concept Formation
Cathryn van Kessel Ed.; Kimberly Edmondson Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
In this collection, scholars from the United States, Canada, and Australia examine the concepts of villainification and anti-villainification in social studies curriculum and popular culture, as well as within broader sociocultural contexts. Villainification is the process of identifying an individual or a small group of individuals as the sole…
Descriptors: Political Issues, Social Studies, Popular Culture, Cultural Influences
Van Meeteren, Beth Dykstra, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Children are intrigued by switches that power a light source and by items that reflect light and sparkle, and they take notice of personal shadows cast on the playground. Many STEM fields draw upon understanding of light and shadow, such as astronomy, biology, engineering, architecture, and more. This book shows teachers how to engage children…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Light, STEM Education, Curriculum
Williamson, Peter, Ed.; Appleman, Deborah, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2021
This important volume examines how and why increasing numbers of students, disproportionately youth of color, are being taken from our schools and put into our prisons. Williamson and Appleman, along with a collection of scholars, teacher educators, K-12 teachers, an administrator, and an incarcerated student, offer their perspectives on how…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Advocacy, Social Justice, Minority Group Students
Kinloch, Valerie, Ed.; Burkhard, Tanja, Ed.; Penn, Carlotta, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2019
This volume brings together respected scholars to examine the intersections of race, justice, and activism in direct relation to the teaching and learning of critical literacy. The authors focus on literacy praxis that reflect how students--with the loving, critical support of teachers and teacher educators--engage in resistance work and…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Activism, Literacy Education
Wong, Shelley, Ed.; Gosnell, Elaisa Sánchez, Ed.; Luu, Anne Marie Foerster, Ed.; Dodson, Lori, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2017
Learn how to engage and advocate for undocumented children and youth with this new resource written by and for teachers. "Teachers as Allies" provides educators with the information and tools they need to involve immigrant students and their American-born siblings and peers in inclusive and transformative classroom experiences. The…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Advocacy, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship