Student Research for Community Change: Tools to Develop Ethical Thinking and Analytic Problem Solving - Softcover

William Tobin (Author) & Valerie Feit (Author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807763802 ISBN 13: 9780807763803

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2020

Synopsis

New research points to the future of education as online, student-centered, collaborative, and community-based—all largely absent from today’s educational landscape. Use this timely guide to show middle, high school, and college students how to undertake research to address challenges in their curriculum and communities. The approach is deliberately designed to make it easy to bring ethical thinking and analytical problem solving to the social studies and STEM curricula, as well as to experiential and inquiry-based learning such as project-based and service learning. Organized around the steps in the social science research method, each step can be linked to curriculum and national standards and taught individually as stand-alone lessons or sequentially as part of a semester or yearlong research seminar. The text includes sample lesson plans, assignments, research questions, research tools, and research reports, as well as examples of concrete policy implementation and the kinds of evidence that can be used to assess and evaluate student work. Book Features: Combines research and citizenship so students can bring knowledge to bear on the most important challenges facing them. Designed for use with diverse students in inclusive classrooms. Developed in a university setting and field tested for over a decade in high schools. Connects K–12 to college and career in an organic and substantive manner. Works with and compliments curriculum that teachers are already using.

About this title

About the Author

William Tobin is a civil rights attorney and research fellow with the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Valerie Feit is co-director of school counseling and enrichment coordinator for Rye Neck, New York School District.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807763802
• ISBN 13: 9780807763803
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277