Focusing on art-based instructional methods, this book promotes the development of compassionate environments by enhancing students' emotional awareness. It emphasizes principles of selflessness and serves as a vital resource for researchers, leaders, and practitioners in social education, offering insights into creating supportive learning spaces.
This text offers readers a holistic view of elementary social studies that instills compassion for all classroom voices and for those outside the classroom. This approach provides a social studies perspective that enables readers to articulate, apply, and defend engaging learning experiences that value each student. A revision of the original textbook by John Hoge and contributions by Laura E. Pinto, the work presents a comprehensive view of social studies that encourages reader awareness of and appreciation for their emotional and social identities. By being comfortable with themselves and their biases, readers may better appreciate the different perspectives of social studies content and better facilitating learning experiences that value the voices of all students.
The book asserts that teaching is a social and political act capable of enabling the teachers of today to delve into the practical, theoretical and socio-historical perspectives of financial literacy instruction in schools with the hopes to better the life outcomes of young people.