Hope, Intolerance, And Greed: A Reality Check For Teachers [Hardcover]

In many ways America is in worse shape than before the first Watts riots occurred over 25 years ago. Intolerance is still abundant; greed is very much alive; and hope held by many at the bottom has been dimmed, if not extinguished. For our country to become everything it is capable of becoming and everything our ancestors dreamed, education cannot continue as usual. Ours is a great country, but when even one of its citizens is made to feel less than human or is robbed of their dignity, something is wrong.Hope, Intolerance, and Greed: A Reality Check for Teachersencourages teachers to question the status quo and to reexamine their power to influence the direction our country takes into the 21st century. It also encourages teachers to acknowledge the realities that exist, teach the rejection of violence, and promote an awareness and understanding of people as individuals.

DEBRA J. ANDERSON is Associate Professor and chair of the Department of Education at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

ROBERT L. MAJOR is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Mankato State University.

RICHARD R. MITCHELL is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Mankato State University. All three have coauthored Teacher Supervision that Works: A Guide for University Supervisors (Praeger, 1992).

Preface
Tolerance and Intolerance
Rethinking the Curriculum: What America Needs to Learn
The Hidden Curriculum: What We Unintentionally Teach and Learn
An Untapped Source of Hope: Elementary and Secondary Teachers Mentoring One Other
Socially Inconsiderate People
Greed
Ethics
Values
Morals
Indifference
Hope
Optimism and Pessimism
Self-Concept: Making Your Own Rainbows
Resilient Children
Teaching Nonviolence
America's Least Expensive, Most Powerful, Most Available Resource: Reading Aloud
Bibliography
Index