Social Reconstructionism

-Sample Classroom Activity: Learning by reconstructing society, for example, students do yard work for a local nursing home

Yesterday's voice: George S. Counts viewed education as an important tool to counter social injustices and if educators questioned their own power to make critical decisions, accounts plea was to just do it.

Today's Voice:Bell Hooks, her theory of education engaged pedagogy which helps teachers and students develop a critical consciousness of race, gender, and class biases.