Journey Toward the Caring Classroom: Using Adventure to Create Community - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

This book makes a case for backing away from our narrow focus of fixing problems to encompass a broader view of what works in schools. It is a resource that summons us to step back, take a deep breath, and search for the common ground of supporting the next generation to be healthy and whole human beings. It offers a way to view one's classroom and school as a commons that is influenced by the school culture and climate; which, in turn, influence the creation of a sense of community. From this view, teaching and learning can take place in a context of sharing, support, and collaboration. Students can take necessary risks to learn because they allow themselves to be open to ideas and different ways of knowing. In the process they can learn and practice what it means to work with others, act with integrity, and take responsibility.This book deftly bridges the gap between conventional and experiential/adventure education by re-casting the classroom teacher as educator/facilitator/guide. It is user friendly and empowers teachers to cultivate flexibility within their educational practice and to use their mind, intuition, knowledge, and the growing body of research available to identify where their students actually are and give them what they need, not what standards say are appropriate. The theory, research, and discussion of social/emotional competencies is solid! This is what we need to make our case in public and conventional private schools. This book is timely and appropriate in that it meets schools' needs and desires for culture and climate change, addressing bullying, social justice, and social emotional development while balancing those needs against the needs for research-based instruction and curriculum design and the requirements to meet state standards (in many cases).

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