Promising Practices in Teaching Social Responsibility Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Controversial Issues and Young Children: Kindergartners Try to Understand Chernobyl	13
2	Bringing Global Awareness into Elementary School Classrooms	27
3	Cooperative Learning: Making the Transition	50
4	"You Need Lots of Choices": Conflict Resolution in the Elementary Grades	72
5	Democratic Practices at the Elementary School Level: Three Portraits	87
6	Literature in the Classroom: Pathways to Social Responsibility	104
7	Educating for Multicultural Perspectives: A Doorway to the Rest of Humanity	120
8	You and I Are the Same: The Multicultural Classroom	129
9	Words, Not Weapons; Dialogue, Not Debate: Managing Conflict at the Middle- and Secondary-School Levels	143
10	Promising Practices in the Social Studies	163
11	Science and Society: Teaching Social Responsibility in the Nuclear Age	182
12	Math and Social Responsibility	192
13	The Arts: Imagining a Better World	207
14	Educating for Democracy and Community: Toward the Transformation of Power in Our Schools	218
15	Teaching for Global Responsibility through Student Participation in the Community	236
	Contributors	257
	Topic Index	261
	Index of Educational Researchers and Theorists	263
	Index of Teachers, Administrators, Students, and Schools Referred to in Text	265