| From the Back Cover Teaching Passionately: What's Love Got to Do With It? explores social foundations from theoretical, collaborative and political perspectives. It asks and answers the questions: What is the place of love and passion in teaching and learning? In an age of standards-based curriculum and assessment, what can each teacher do to maintain the joy of teaching and learning? Concise portraits demonstrate the value of passionate pedagogy in action and vignettes of authentic classroom experience including kindergarten through higher education encourage students to connect principles and practices. Features: * “Praxis” feature in every chapter provides pre-service and in-service teachers with concrete exercises designed to turn theory to practice in the classroom. * “Literacy Link” feature in every chapter demonstrates literacy experiences related to the chapter. * “What can be learned from this?” feature in every chapter helps the reader focus on valuable lessons within the chapter content. * “Voice of Schools” feature in every chapter demonstrates the central idea within schools. * “Voice of Life” feature in every chapter demonstrates how life's experiences influence the central idea of the chapter. * “A Plan for Passionate Pedagogy” in chapter eight, provides specific exercises for readers to discover their passion, which will enrich their teaching. * “Write, right now“ feature in every chapter offers provocative statements and questions encouraging readers to make meaning of the previous section of text. |
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