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Those Who Can: A Handbook for Social Reconstruction and Teaching traces the development of a critical pedagogy within one educator´s personal history, and examines the implications of critical pedagogy from this educator´s perspective.

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Those Who Can: A Handbook for Social Reconstruction and Teaching traces the development of a critical pedagogy within one educator´s personal history, and examines the implications of critical pedagogy from this educator´s perspective. The study draws from her years of practice and reflection, and reads as a handbook for other educators to use in the implementation of critical pedagogy.

The first of four sections in Those Who Can: A Handbook for Social Reconstruction and Teaching proposes that all teachers share a set of responsibilities, and carries out an assessment of the educator´s work using these responsibilities as a benchmark. The second section considers teaching and learning from the perspective of a critical pedagogy. The third section offers possibilities for a critical pedagogy that others may use, including a school design and lesson plans. The fourth and final section includes a timeline of significant events in the history of public schools, as well as a glossary of terms and bibliography. Challenging the current trend of simplified and teacher-proof classrooms, Those Who Can: A Handbook for Social Reconstruction and Teaching concludes that social reconstruction and critical pedagogy both offer ways to meaningfully question the work of teaching and ways to find answers.

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Introduction - Teaching in the Fray - How to Use This Book: You Don´t Have to Read the Whole Thing, but Please Read This - A Brief History of the Public School - Why This Matters Now More Than Ever - Coming Full Circle-Thinking Through My Own Experience - Methodology-Constructing Meaning Through My Own Experience - The Power of the Teacher - Ten Responsibilities for Those Who Can - Reflection - An Examination of My Own Practice: A Reflection in Two Parts - Planning and Learning-From Cognition to Culture - Teaching-The Performative Nature and Potential of Curriculum - Teaching-Looking at Text - Possibilities for a Social Reconstruction - Every School, Every Subject-STEM and Classroom Culture - Lesson Plan: How Do We Get From Here to There? - Lesson Plans: Poetry Lesson: How to Write the Great African-American Novel: Reading for Information - A Thoughtful Timeline - Reconstruction Concepts: Glossary and Annotated Bibliography.

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Tanya Merriman holds her doctorate in curriculum and teacher leadership and an MAT in teaching English. She has been teaching for nearly two decades and has worked across grade levels and in many different kinds of schools. She now teaches graduate level, pre-service teachers. She brings this experience and a panoramic view of education to her writing and her teaching.

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