Fires in Our Lives

Advice for Teachers from Today's High School Students

Fires in Our Lives
Kathleen Cushman, Kristien Zenkov, Meagan Call-Cummings
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h200 x 155mm - 256pg
18 Mar 2021 UK
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9781620975435
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A sequel to the classic Fires in the Bathroom that illuminates what adolescents most need from teachers in today' s upsetting times The context in which adolescents are learning has shifted radically since students first offered blunt advice to high school teachers in the groundbreaking Fires in the Bathroom, a perennial bestseller. Now their wo
Praise for Fires in Our Lives: "The authors provide many resources and activities to facilitate social-emotional development and inquiry. " -Booklist "A carefully crafted and concisely arranged assortment of diverse interviews of high school students in which they attempt to explain the challenges of circumnavigating a rapidly transforming world where unimaginable change, socioeconomic inequalities and cultural barriers are causing them extreme anxiety and how their teachers can better help. " -New York Journal of Books "An accurate and useful snapshot of what today' s teenagers are up to and up against. " -Publishers Weekly "For anyone interested in inspiring students and helping them develop their full potential as global citizens. " -Library Journal "Once again, Cushman and her colleagues turn to the experts we are least likely to hear from--kids--to inform us about what' s working in schools and what' s not. As you read about their experiences and perceptions I hope you will feel as compelled as I do, to take action to support them. " -Pedro A. Noguera, PhD, Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California "We now know how desperately students and educators yearn to be with, to be incommunity, to learn and teach in intimate relations. This volume may be the lantern we need to carve new paths in the history of education, refusing to ' go back to the normal' that was deadening all of us--students and teachers, and democracy alike. " -Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology and Urban Education, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Kathleen Cushman is the author of Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students and the co-author (with Laura Rogers) of Fires in the Middle School Bathroom. Student motivation and mastery are the subjects of her recent books Fires in the Mind and The Motivation Equation. Her work with the national nonprofit What Kids Can Do, Inc. , which she co-founded with Barbara Cervone in 2001, includes extensive documentation of adolescent learning in print and mixed media. She lives in New York City. Kristien Zenkov, PhD, is a professor of education and the Academic Program coordinator for the Secondary Education (SEED) program at George Mason University. He has long experience as a boundary-spanning educator and a facilitator of school-university partnerships. Currently he co-directs the Youth Participatory Action Research and photovoice project "Through Students' Eyes," in which young people document with photographs and writings their beliefs about citizenship, justice, school, and literacy. Meagan Call-Cummings, PhD, is an assistant professor of Qualitative Methods at George Mason University. She specializes in participatory action research (PAR) and other methodologies undergirded by critical, feminist, and participatory theories and pedagogies.
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ISBN-13: 9781620975435
Published: 18 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: The New Press
Publisher: The New Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 200mm
Width: 155mm
Pages: 256

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