We, the Students and Teachers: Teaching Democratically in the History and Social Studies Classroom

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· State University of New York Press
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256
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About this ebook

We, the Students and Teachers shows history and social studies educators how to make school classrooms into democratic spaces for teaching and learning. The book offers practical strategies and lesson ideas for transforming democratic theory into instructional practice. It stresses the importance of students and teachers working together to create community and change. The book serves as an essential text for history and social studies teaching methods courses as well as professional development and inservice programs for history and social studies teachers at all grade levels.

About the author

Robert W. Maloy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the coauthor of several books, including (with Ruth-Ellen Verock-O'Loughlin, Sharon A. Edwards, and Beverly P. Woolf) Transforming Learning with New Technologies, Second Edition. Irene S. LaRoche is a history and social studies teacher at Amherst Regional Middle School in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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