TY - BOOK AU - Totten,Samuel AU - Pedersen,Jon E. TI - Researching and teaching social issues: the personal stories and pedagogical efforts of professors of education SN - 9781617357466 PY - 2012/// CY - Charlotte, NC PB - Information Age Pub. KW - Social sciences KW - Study and teaching KW - Education KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-265) and index; Introduction / by Samuel Totten and Jon E. Pedersen -- Education, politics, and social transformation / Michael W. Apple -- Human ecology and science education policies and programs: reflections on social activism / Roger W. Bybee -- Forty days and forty nights in the wilderness of capitalist schooling / Ronald W. Evans -- Becoming political: one woman's story / Carole L. Hahn -- The unending quest for social issues in the schools: a personal narrative / Byron G. Massialas -- Social justice / Alex Molnar -- My experience with social issues and education / Fred Newmann -- Social issues and decision making: a career long commitment / Anna S. Ochoa-Becker -- The evolution of an educator / Jon E. Pedersen -- A happenstance-based social issues career / James P. Shaver -- Serendipity: a paradigm shifter's friend in academia / Barbara Solomon Spector -- A synergy of awareness, understanding, empathy and action: confronting social issues in the English classroom and beyond / Samuel Totten -- Socials issues as contexts for science and technology education / Robert Yager ER -