About the Author:
Scott Wurdinger is a professor of experiential learning and leadership studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. His most recent book published with Rowman and Littlefield is titled Changing the Status Quo: Courage to Challenge the Education System.
Cynthia McDermott is a faculty member in education at Antioch University Los Angeles. Her academic interest is in encouraging opportunities for young people to have power and to stand against oppression.
Kiel Harell is an assistant professor of education at the University of Minnesota, Morris. His research focuses on increasing opportunities for democratic deliberation in teacher education.
Hilton Smith, starting in 1965, taught secondary social studies in a variety of demographic situations – rural, suburban, urban – including an alternative high school in Atlantic Public Schools which he cofounded. He served as Coordinator of Education for the Foxfire Foundation until joining the School of Education at Piedmont College, Georgia, until his retirement in June 2017 to assume a part-time status.
Review:
Empowering Our Students for the Future is a visionary book that gives us real world examples of just how powerful it is when children make decisions about their own learning. In doing so, this collection also shows us how to challenge the teacher and test centered education being promoted by corporate education reformers. (Wayne Au, professor, University of Washington Bothell; editor & author, Rethinking Schools)
Creating the conditions for student voice and participation is critically essential to the social and political formation of young people. In this book, the editors bring together an excellent set of essays that provide educators with useful and empowering strategies to support the democratic formation of their students as engaged citizens for a just and democratic society. (Antonia Darder, Leavey Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University)
Empowering our Students for the Future is an excellent resource for educators interested in helping all students take responsibility for their own learning. The book provides exceptional examples that demonstrate the importance of creating learning experiences, which raise engagement and critical skills for success through relevant projects and increased opportunities to increase student agency. (Lisa Snyder, EdD, executive director, EdVisions)
If we’re ever going to be able to use schools as tools to help people of all ages find their ways to lives worth living and work worth doing, we will have to question the assumptions supporting the schooling status quo. Empowering Our Students for the Future is full of the kinds of questions we need and some possible answers as well. (Dan Grego, director, TransCenter For Youth, Inc.)
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