Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 200
Trim: 7 x 9¼
978-0-7425-3696-8 • Hardback • December 2004 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
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César Augusto Rossatto teaches in the College of Education at the University of Texas, El Paso.
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction: A Personal Perspective
Chapter 3 Seeing Fatalism and Optimism from a Freirean Perspective
Chapter 4 Time Consciousness
Chapter 5 Blind Optimism
Chapter 6 Fatalistic Optimism
Chapter 7 The Impact of U.S. Standardized Testing in the Context of the Four Categories of Optimism
Chapter 7 Resilient Optimism
Chapter 8 Theoretical Implications for Children's Development, Studies on the Concept of Time, the Centeredness of School Pedagogy, and Critical Pedagogies
Chapter 8 Transformative Optimism
Chapter 11 Policy Implications, Recommendations, and Conclusions
Draws on the work of the Brazilian education theorist in a study of how students' experience of schooling reflects their sense of time and optimism.....
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Rossatto studied children in Brazil and the US and mapped a Freirian frame of desire and optimism into a conceptual framework of Transformative Optimism, Blind Optimism, Fatalist Optimism, and Resilient Optimism to better understand how classrooms, schools, and communities can sustain pedagogy of optimism to serve all students. Recommended....
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In this pedagogical study, Rossatto addresses the ways students perceive and use time as well as the variation in their optimism about schooling. He demonstrates the influence of social structures and experience on students' notions of possibilities and educators' beliefs about teaching. He advocates a curriculum based on Freirean critical pedagogy and time theories to enhance time-consciousness values....
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