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Half an Inch from the Edge

Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation

By: Noah Borrero,Patrick Roz Camangian,Richard Ayers,Sharim Hannegan-Martinez,Esther Flores

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Half an Inch from the Edge

Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation

By: Noah Borrero,Patrick Roz Camangian,Richard Ayers,Sharim Hannegan-Martinez,Esther Flores

Half an Inch from the Edge: Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation is a book about the tensions and opportunities reflected in today’s public school classrooms in the U.S. Through detailed case studies of four classrooms, the authors explore socially transformative pedagogy in action. The result is a narrative that intertwines a critical social analysis of our educational system with real-life examples from K-12 classrooms. The four teachers highlighted in the book are new, urban, socially-conscious educators of Color who strive to make their classrooms something new and something different—spaces where youth can learn about and express their own cultural identities as a part of the curriculum. These stories are told through the creation, implementation, analysis, and assessment of teachers’ action research projects as they complete their Masters degrees and begin their first years as full-time teachers. Central to each of the case studies—which span multiple grade levels and content areas—is a focus on self-reflection, a deep desire to build meaningful relationships with students, and a quest to make learning relevant to students’ lived experiences. Also painfully clear is the role of failure, and the tremendous creativity, ingenuity, and persistence of these new teachers, as they learn alongside their students and together fight the injustices inherent in their schools, districts, and the national system of education. Ultimately, the portraits of these teachers show that amidst all of the forces working against them and their students, there is hope—hope that the great experiment of American public education can transform into a system that serves all students.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475832621

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9781475832624

Deep Time

A Literary History

By: Noah Heringman

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Deep Time

A Literary History

By: Noah Heringman

How the concept of “deep time” began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of “deep time”—most often associated with geological epochs—began as a metaphorical language used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the origins of life beyond the written record. Their ideas about “the abyss of time” created a way to think about the prehistoric before it was possible to assign dates to the fossil record. Heringman, examining stories about the deep past by visionary thinkers ranging from William Blake to Charles Darwin, challenges the conventional wisdom that the idea of deep time came forth fully formed from the modern science of geology. Instead, he argues, it has a rich imaginative history. Heringman considers Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster, naturalists on James Cook’s second voyage around the world, who, inspired by encounters with Pacific islanders, connected the scale of geological time to human origins and cultural evolution; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who drew on travel narrative, antiquarian works, and his own fieldwork to lay out the first modern geological timescale; Blake and Johann Gottfried Herder, who used the language of fossils and artifacts to promote ancient ballads and “prehistoric song”; and Darwin’s exploration of the reciprocal effects of geological and human time. Deep time, Heringman shows, has figural and imaginative dimensions beyond its geological meaning.

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Princeton University Press

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0691235805

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Half an Inch from the Edge

Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation

By: Noah Borrero,Patrick Roz Camangian,Richard Ayers,Sharim Hannegan-Martinez,Esther Flores

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Half an Inch from the Edge

Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation

By: Noah Borrero,Patrick Roz Camangian,Richard Ayers,Sharim Hannegan-Martinez,Esther Flores

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