Hungry minds in hard times

A story of liberatory education for poor, working-class, rural, middle school students. Through 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. [back cover].

Year

2002

Language

English

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing

Editions

1

Pages

191

ISBN

9780820455013

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