Handbook of Prosocial Education

Philip M. Brown; Michael W. Corrigan; Ann Higgins-D&#039;Alessandro

doi:10.5771/9781442211216

Summary

Handbook of Prosocial Education is the definitive theoretical, practical, and policy guide to the prosocial side of education, the necessary second side of the educational coin. Academic teaching and learning are the first side of education; however, academic success depends upon the structures and support of prosocial educational efforts from promoting positive school climate to fostering student and teacher development to civic literacy and responsible and critical citizenship participation. The Handbook of Prosocial Education chapters, written by highly-respected researchers and outstanding educators, represent the wide range of research-based prosocial interventions from pre-school through high school. The chapters explore and explain how prosocial education helps teachers create effective classroom learning environments to support the development of the whole student, principals encourage positive school climate, and superintendents work to improve the health and well-being of their systems. As readers will learn, when done well, prosocial education develops the capacities and competencies of students, teachers, and school administrators that lead to a more autonomous, positive self-concept, greater sense of purpose, more socially responsible behaviors, and increased connections between families, schools, and communities.

This book pulls together in one place for the first time the various threads that create the prosocial education tapestry, making a compelling case for the necessity of changing national educational policy that continues to be ever-more oriented to only the academic side of the educational coin, thus jeopardizing the foundational and historic purpose of educating our children for their full human development and participation in our democracy.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-1119-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-1121-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 838
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Foreword. The Case for Prosocial Education: Developing Caring, Capable Citizens No access
4. Preface No access
1. CHAPTER 1. The Second Side of Education: Prosocial Development No access
2. CHAPTER 2. The History of Prosocial Education No access
3. CHAPTER 3. The History and Direction of Research on Prosocial Education No access
4. CHAPTER 4. The Practice of Prosocial Education No access
5. CHAPTER 5. Prosocial Education: A Coherent Approach to Putting Applied Theory into Action No access
1. CHAPTER 6. Character Education: A Primer on History, Research, and Effective Practices No access
2. Case Study 6A. Francis Howell Middle School, Missouri No access
3. Case Study 6B. The Jefferson Way No access
4. CHAPTER 7. Civic Education and Prosocial Behavior No access
5. Case Study 7A. Project Citizen No access
6. Case Study 7B. Civic Environmentalism: Social Responsibility for Public Resources No access
7. CHAPTER 8. Moral Education No access
8. Case Study 8A. Philosophy as Prosocial Education No access
9. Case Study 8B. Reading for Life No access
10. Case Study 8C. The “A”-School: Democracy and Learning No access
11. CHAPTER 9. School Climate and Culture Improvement: A Prosocial Strategy That Recognizes,Educates, and Supports the Whole Child and the Whole School Community No access
12. Case Study 9A. School Climate: The Road Map to Student Achievement No access
13. Case Study 9B. School Climate Reform at Upper Merion Area Middle School No access
14. CHAPTER 10. The Case for Prosocial Education: Service Learning as Community Building No access
15. Case Study 10A. Service Learning Success in Philadelphia No access
16. Case Study 10B. Service Learning in Mineola High School No access
17. Case Study 10C. Service Learning in Practice: Lake Riviera Middle School No access
18. CHAPTER 11. Social and Emotional Learning and Prosocial Education: Theory, Research, and Programs No access
19. Case Study 11A. Implementing the PATHS Program in Birmingham, UK No access
20. Case Study 11B. Roots of Empathy No access
21. Case Study 11C. “The Missing Piece in Schooling”: Social and Emotional Learning No access
22. CHAPTER 12. Supporting Educational Goals through Cultivating Mindfulness: Approaches for Teachers and Students No access
23. Case Study 12A. Learning to BREATHE No access
24. Case Study 12B. Implementing the Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) Program No access
25. CHAPTER 13. Positive Youth Development No access
26. Case Study 13A. Integrating Six Developmental Pathwaysin the Classroom: The Synergy between Teacher and Students No access
27. Case Study 13B. Children First: It Starts with You No access
28. Case Study 13C. Positive Youth Development: Positive Action at Farmdale Elementary School No access
29. CHAPTER 14. Prevention of Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying No access
30. Case Study 14A. Lynch Elementary School Bullying Prevention Program No access
31. Case Study 14B. Team LEAD—Leadership, Empathy, Accountability, and Discussion: Addressing Social Aggression through Bystander Leadership Groups No access
32. Case Study 14C. Building a Bullying Prevention Program from the Ground Up: Students as the Key No access
33. CHAPTER 15. Establishing the Foundations: Prosocial Education in Early Childhood Development No access
34. Case Study 15A. The Early Learning Campus No access
35. Case Study 15B. Implementing an Evidence-Based Preschool Program: A Superintendent’s Perspective on Tools of the Mind No access
36. CHAPTER 16. After School as a Context for Prosocial Development No access
37. Case Study 16A. The Core Five Essentials: A Prosocial Application in After-School Settings No access
38. Case Study 16B. The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families After-School Program at PS/MS 279 No access
39. CHAPTER 17. Building a Prosocial Mind-Set in Teacher and Administrator Preparation Programs No access
40. Case Study 17A. Developing Emotionally Intelligent School Counselors for the Prosocial Classroom No access
41. Case Study 17B. Leading in the Middle: A Tale of Prosocial Education Reform in Two Principals and Two Middle Schools No access
42. Case Study 17C. Prospective Teachers’ Work with Homeless Youth: Articulating the Value of Service Learning in Teacher Education No access
43. CHAPTER 18. Multicultural Education Is/as/in Prosocial Education No access
44. Case Study 18A. Facing History and Ourselves No access
45. Case Study 18B. Educating American Indian Students: Creating a Prosocial Context No access
1. CHAPTER 19. The District Superintendent’s Role in Supporting Prosocial Education No access
2. CHAPTER 20. The School Principal’s Role in Planning and Organizing Prosocial Education No access
3. CHAPTER 21. The School Specialist’s Role as a Champion of Prosocial Education No access
4. CHAPTER 22. The Teacher’s Role in Implementing Prosocial Education No access
1. CHAPTER 23. The Body of Evidence Supporting the Call for Prosocial Education No access
2. CHAPTER 24. Prosocial Education: Weaving a Tapestry to Support Policy and Practice No access
Index No access Pages 801 - 820
About the Contributors No access Pages 821 - 838