Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0942961285 ISBN 13: 9780942961287

Publisher: Rethinking Schools Press, 2002

Synopsis

Rethinking Globalization is the best single-volume source for teaching strategies that will help students make sense of an increasingly complicated and scary world. Rethinking Globalization alerts readers to the challenges we face--from child labor to sweatshops, from global warming to destruction of the rainforests--and also spotlights the enormous courage and creativity of people working to set things right. This essential resource includes role plays, interviews, poetry, stories, background readings, hands-on teaching tools, and much more!

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About the Author

Bill Bigelow teaches social studies at Franklin High School in Portland, Oregon, and is an editor of Rethinking Schools. He is author of Strangers in Their Own Country: A Curriculum on South Africa, and (with Norm Diamond), The Power in Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States. With Bob Peterson he edited Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years. He can be reached at bbpdx@aol.com. ob Peterson teaches fifth grade at La Escuela Fratney, a two-way bilingual public school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a founding editor of Rethinking Schools, and is a frequent writer and speaker. He co-edited (with Bill Bigelow) Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years and (with Michael Charney) Transforming Teacher Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice. In 1995 he was selected as Wisconsin Elementary Teacher of the Year. He can be reached at repmilw@aol.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rethinking Schools Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0942961285
• ISBN 13: 9780942961287
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 402
• Editor: Bill Bigelow, Bob Peterson