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Black Ants and Buddhists
Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades
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, Massachusetts, 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.
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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, Massachusetts, 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 fa...read more
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Table of Contents
- Foreword by Sonia Nieto
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Compassion, Action, and Change
- 3. Routines: A Day in the Life of the Peace Class
- 4. It Takes a Village to Teach First Grade
- 5. Talking About Peace
- 6. Learning Through Activism
- 7. Teaching History So Children Will Care
- 8. Nurturing History Detectives
- 9. Seeing Ourselves and Our Families Through Students' Eyes
- 10. Responding When Tragedy Enters the Classroom
- 11. Building Trust with Families and Weathering Controversy
- 12. Going Against the Grain
- Afterword: "Take This Hammer"
- Appendix
- References