AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World. (Book Reviews).
Edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
Finding resources to help students and teachers go beyond simplistic, pro-corporate analyses of globalization is becoming increasingly difficult. The Milwaukee-based activist-educators at Rethinking Schools have created many resources that should be in every school library and classroom. Their latest effort is no exception.
This book is the culmination of a decade of distilling complicated issues into short essays, lesson plans, role plays, hands-on teaching tools, cartoons, poems, and factual summaries. It weaves together so many facts and trends that the evening news will never be the same once you have read it.
If you were ever unsure of how sweatshops in this country relate to the exploitation of child labor in Mexico or Thailand, look no further. The growth of biotech crops, increased American military interventions overseas, and the rise of multilateral trade agreements are presented in formats that encourage school-age readers to ask questions, do their own research, and get involved in activities to address injustices. The Rethinking Globalization website (www.rethinkingschools.org/rg/) has a list of updated ...
- Rethinking globalization: teaching for justice in an unjust world: by Bill...
- Magazine article from: New Internationalist Baird, Vanessa October 1, 2003 700+ words
This is simply the most inspiring educational book I've ever laid hands on. Put together by two teachers based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it needs to be at every teacher's side when looking for print-based learning resources. It is of similar value to activists writing leaflets or preparing talks.
- Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Radical Teacher Rubin, Jacob June 22, 2003 700+ words
...Bigelow and Bob Peterson. Rethinking Schools Publications, 2002...Massachusetts. I used Rethinking Globalization in a school project...on sweatshop labor. Rethinking Globalization was especially helpful...tie different parts of Rethinking Globalization to sections of my ...
- Rethinking schools: classroom educators publish a journal packed with practical...
- Newspaper article from: NEA Today Jehlen, Alain January 1, 2004 700+ words
...grown up around a quarterly named Rethinking Schools, probably the only education journal...teaching." Now in its 18th year, Rethinking Schools reflects its authors--passionately...crosshairs of the teacher's red pen." Rethinking Schools is the brainchild of a group of Milwaukee...
- Rethinking Schools, comp. New Teacher Book: Finding Purpose, Balance and Hope...
- Magazine article from: School Library Journal April 1, 2005 700+ words
RETHINKING SCHOOLS, comp. New Teacher Book: Finding Purpose, Balance and Hope During Your First Years in the Classroom. 248p. Rethinking Schools. 2004. pap. $14.95. ISBN 0-942961-45-5. LC number unavailable. A series of personal...
- Rethinking Schools: An Agenda for Change.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Hughes, Kathleen March 15, 1995 700+ words
...group of Milwaukee-area teachers, frustrated with the pace of education reform, created the quarterly journal Rethinking Schools. Since its inception, the journal has gained a reputation for insightful writing about some of the most controversial...
- Rethinking Schools. (News for Educational Workers).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Radical Teacher September 22, 2002 700+ words
Rethinking Schools: an Urban Educational Journal, a non-profit, independent newspaper advocating the reform of elementary and secondary public...
- Rethinking globalization. (The Way we See it).(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: CircuiTree Sakelson, Roy April 1, 2003 700+ words
In early February, members of California's printed circuit community dined together the night before they lobbied Sacramento on behalf of the state's struggling electronics industry. The chicken, while good, was not half as interesting as the debate. The night started innocently enough when IPC's
- Rethinking Globalization: Nirvana or Armageddon?
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 5, 2004 700+ words
(From The Jakarta Post) Globalization remains a paradox up to today in our world. It brings about dramatic economic growth and advancement of technology, but at the same time also causes unprecedented human and ecological problems. Anthony Giddens (1999) describes this situation as being like a
- What's in a soccer ball? Teaching students how they connect with the rest of...
- Newspaper article from: NEA Today Bigelow, Bill February 1, 2003 700+ words
...teacher in Milwaukee, and I edited Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust...of the national education journal Rethinking Schools. For more on Rethinking Globalization, e-mail bbpdx@aoL.com or see...
- Books for giving and receiving: a holiday collection. (Culture watch: books art...
- Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine Marsh, Molly November 1, 2002 700+ words
...more. (Earth Ministry) Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice...school, respectively), Rethinking Globalization is chock-full of ideas...resources are extensive. (Rethinking Schools Press) For a more detailed...
Source: HighBeam Research, Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World....