shopping cart
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Interviews | July 4, 2009

Jill Owens: IMG Powells.com Interview: Luis Alberto Urrea



luisalbertourreaLuis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico,... Continue »
  1. $17.49 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Into the Beautiful North

    Luis Alberto Urrea

$17.05
List price: $18.50
TRADE PAPER, NEW
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
available for shipping or prepaid pickup only
Available for In-store Pickup
in 7 to 12 days
Qty Store Section
3 Partner Warehouse Education- General


Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades (06 Edition)

by Mary Cowhey

Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades (06 Edition) Cover

ISBN13: 9781571104182
ISBN10: 1571104186
All Product Details

Only 3 left in stock at $17.05!
  1. This particular item is stocked in a Partner Warehouse and will ship separately from other items in your shopping cart.

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

What would a classroom look like if understanding and respecting differences in race, culture, beliefs, and opinions were at its heart? Welcome to Mary Cowhey's Peace Class in Northampton, MA, where first and second graders view the entire curriculum through the framework of understanding the world, and trying to do their part to make it a better place.

Woven through the book is Mary's unflinching and humorous account of her own roots in a struggling large Irish Catholic family and her early career as a community activist. Mary's teaching is infused with lessons of her heroes: Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, and others. Her students learn to make connections between their lives, the books they read, the community leaders they meet, and the larger world.

If you were inspired to become a teacher because you wanted to change the world, and instead find yourself limited by teach-to-the-test pressures, this is the book that will make you think hard about how you spend your time with students. It offers no easy answers, just a wealth of insight into the challenges of helping students think critically about the world, and starting points for conversations about diversity and controversy in your classroom, as well as in the larger community.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781571104182
Subtitle:
Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades
Author:
Cowhey, Mary
Foreword:
Nieto, Sonia
Publisher:
Stenhouse Publishers
Subject:
Education-General
Subject:
Education, primary
Subject:
Multicultural Education
Subject:
Aims & Objectives
Subject:
Professional Development
Subject:
Elementary
Subject:
Multicultural education -- United States.
Subject:
Elementary school teaching -- United States.
Publication Date:
January 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
244
Dimensions:
9.30x7.32x.55 in. 1.17 lbs.

Other books you might like

  1. $32.50 New Trade Paper add to wish list
  2. $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list
  3. $13.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  4. $15.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  5. $30.75 New Trade Paper add to wish list
  6. $10.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.