Wayne Journell Knihy

Engaging with 21st-century social issues, this book features contributions from leading scholars in social studies education, addressing topics like gun control, marriage equality, the Black Lives Matter movement, and immigration. It provides a theoretical framework for discussing controversial subjects while offering practical strategies for K-12 educators to facilitate meaningful classroom conversations around these critical issues.

Drawing on data from various studies, this book provides actionable recommendations for navigating and improving communication in a polarized environment. It emphasizes best practices that can help bridge divides and foster understanding among differing viewpoints, making it a valuable resource for individuals and organizations seeking to engage constructively in contentious discussions.

As online learning continues to become more prominent in K-12 education, it will be important that teachers are knowledgeable about both the potential of online learning and the challenges associated with moving curricula online. This book, written by a former secondary online teacher who now teaches online instructional methods to practicing K-12 teachers, addresses those challenges and offers practical, research-based approaches to creating successful online learning experiences. Both novice and experienced K-12 teachers will benefit from the author's strategies for creating engaging, learner-centered instruction in an online format. This book is unique from other practitioner-oriented books on online learning in that it focuses exclusively on adolescents' experiences with online instruction.

"The purpose of this book is to amplify the stories of practitioners who have critically examined and reflected on their successes and challenges when planning and/or teaching histories that they have identified as difficult. Representing a wide range of educational contexts in the United States and in other countries, - practitioners' (K-12 teachers and museum educators) voices and classrooms are at the center of each chapter. These stories provide readers with rare examples of how teachers plan for, teach, and reflect on difficult histories"--