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Caring Hearts & Critical Minds
Literature, Inquiry, and Social Responsibility
Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as workers. What if school were also about cultivating students to be caring, community-involved citizens and critical, creative thinkers who love to read?
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Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as workers. What if school were also about cultivating students to be caring, community-involved citizens and critical, creative thinkers who love to read?
In Caring Hearts & Critical Minds, teacher-author Steven Wolk shows teachers how to help students become better readers as well as better people. "I want [my students] to be thinkers...read more
About the Author(s)
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Read?
Chapter 2: Good Books
Chapter 3: Learning Through Inquiry
Chapter 4: Teaching for Social Responsibility
Chapter 5: Real-World Resources
Chapter 6: Designing an Inquiry Unit
Chapter 7: Does Technology Always Make Life Better?
Chapter 8: Why Should I Care About the Environment?
Chapter 9: What is Empathy?
Chapter 10: Why Should I Care About What Is Happening Around the World?
Chapter 11: Why Care About Poverty?
Chapter 12: Reading for Heart and Mind (in the Age of Testing and Standards)
Chapter 13: Becoming a Teacher of Inquiry
Appendixes
References
Index