Class Actions: Teaching for Social Justice in Elementary and Middle School

by JoBeth Allen

This volume provides pictures of classrooms whose teachers have made education for social justice central to their curriculum. It offers familiar structures used in innovative ways, such as integrating thematic studies of discrimination in US history to help children examine their own prejudices.

169 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

About the author

JoBeth Allen retired from the University of Georgia in 2014 where she loved teaching, writing, and codirecting the Red Clay Writing Project where all of us met. She relishes spending more time with her family, including grandchildren Grace, Luke, Mia, Cora, and Anikin. Her educational passion now is work with undocumented immigrant students pursuing higher education in the face of institutional and societal barriers.