A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers: Lessons and Resources from the U.N. Rights of the Child, edited by JoBeth Allen, a professor of language and literacy education in the College of Education, and Lois Alexander, a graduate of language and literacy education, is a dynamic book that provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards.
Chapter authors are teachers in the Athens area who are part of the Red Clay Writing Project. They created vivid portraits of K-12 classrooms to illustrate how teachers can use a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry into relevant social issues such as immigration rights, religious tolerance, racial equality, countering the effects of poverty, and respect for people with disabilities.
The book shows how these teachers worked together to develop a critical content framework using the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
