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| | | | | |  | Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms. In Empowering Education Shor offers a comprehensive theory and practice for critical pedagogy.
For Shor, empowering education is a student-centered, critical and democratic pedagogy for studying any subject matter and for self and social change. It takes shape as a dialogue in which teachers and students mutually investigate everyday themes, social issues, and academic knowledge. Through dialogue and problem-posing, students become active agents of their learning. This book shows how students can develop as critical thinkers, inspired learners, skilled workers, and involved citizens.
Shor carefully analyzes obstacles to and resources for empowering education, suggesting ways for teachers to transform traditional approaches into critical and democratic ones. He offers many examples and applications for the elementary grades through college and adult education.
| | | | | | | | | | Author : by Karen Glanz (Editor), Barbara K. Rimer (Editor) | |  | Hoping to aid the health education community understand how theory informs research and practice and vice versa, Glanz (social and behavioral sciences, Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i at the U. of Hawai'i), Rimer (health behavior and health education, U. of North Carolina School of Public Health), and Lewis (nursing, U. of Washington) present 24 papers that look at the application of behavioral theory in a variety of settings. After defining key terms and concepts, four chapters focus on particular bodies of the theory: the health belief model, the theory of reasoned action and planned behavior, the transtheoretical model, and the precaution adoption process plan. Further chapters examine interpersonal theories; social cognitive theory, social networks, and social support; models for the community or aggregate levels of change; and finally, applications of overarching planning and process models | | | | | | | | | | |  | Wanted: A Queen of Education Candidate must be able to take decisive action, cut through red tape, deflate the bureaucratic bloat, wrestle with the diagnostic nightmare of ADHD, and refuse to sellout her students to the corporate fat cats.
Though we have “education presidents” who give lip service to fixing schools—what we really need is a Queen of Education who will get the job done. Anyone searching for such a candidate would put LouAnne Johnson’s resume on the top of the stack of likely applicants. LouAnne Johnson is the gutsy ex-marine turned teacher who has wrestled with tough kids and even tougher adults. Her life inspired the movie Dangerous Minds—which was based on her book My Posse Don’t Do Homework. Johnson’s knack for finding original solutions to intractable problems has not only made her an exemplary teacher but a popular speaker on the lecture circuit.
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