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Mary Cowhey
Year: 2006
Foreword by Sonia Nieto
Media: 256 pp/paper
ISBN: 978-157110-418-2
Grade Range: K-3
Item No.: WEB-0418
Price: $18.50
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Table of Contents | About the Author(s) | Reviews
Black Ants and Buddhists received a 2007 Skipping Stones Honor Award. Read more here.What would a classroom look like if understanding and respecting differences in race, culture, beliefs, and opinions were at its heart? Welcome to Mary Cowhey's Peace Class in Northampton, MA, where first and second graders view the entire curriculum through the framework of understanding the world, and trying to do their part to make it a better place. Woven through the book is Mary's unflinching and humorous account of her own roots in a struggling large Irish Catholic family and her early career as a community activist. Mary's teaching is infused with lessons of her heroes: Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, and others. Her students learn to make connections between their lives, the books they read, the community leaders they meet, and the larger world. If you were inspired to become a teacher because you wanted to change the world, and instead find yourself limited by teach-to-the-test pressures, this is the book that will make you think hard about how you spend your time with students. It offers no easy answers, just a wealth of insight into the challenges of helping students think critically about the world, and starting points for conversations about diversity and controversy in your classroom, as well as in the larger community.
Table of Contents
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Foreword by Sonia Nieto
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Compassion, Action, and Change
Chapter 3: Routines: A Day in the Life of the Peace Class
Chapter 4: It Takes a Village to Teach First Grade
Chapter 5: Talking About Peace
Chapter 6: Learning Through Activism
Chapter 7: Teaching History So Children Will Care
Chapter 8: Nurturing History Detectives
Chapter 9: Seeing Ourselves and Our Families Through Students' Eyes
Chapter 10: Responding When Tragedy Enters the Classroom
Chapter 11: Building Trust with Families and Weathering Controversy
Chapter 12: Going Against the Grain
Afterword: "Take This Hammer"
Appendix
References
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About the Author(s)
Mary Cowhey has been teaching first and second grade at Jackson St. School in Northampton, MA for nine years.
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Reviews
Childhood Education - 2007
"Cowhey offers a perspective of primary education that challenges the status quo... [and] demonstrates the natural affinity that children have to probe both the depth and breadth of diverse areas of curriculum." Childhood Education, 2007 Education Review - October 2006
"It would do well for teacher-educator programs and preservice educators to study the breath of teacher knowledge set forth in this writing." Education Review, October 2006 Mothering - September/October 2006
"Written in an engaging style, this is an inspiring book for educators and parents alike." Mothering, September/October 2006 Skipping Stones -
"Cowhey's book reveals an inquiry-based classroom at its finest; reflective, sensitive, and engaged by the world around it!" Skipping Stones
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Article: Philosophy in second grade?
Mary Cowhey writes about helping students develop critical thinking skills in this article from the website of The Republican newspaper Mary Cowhey wins 2007 Skipping Stones Honor Award
Mary's book, Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades is one of 25 books being honored by Skipping Stones, an award-winning multicultural education magazine for children.
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