Reviews - Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning

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Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning

read this for work and it was very interesting! I have never been a teacher have never built curriculum so tbh this didn't reaaaallly apply to me but it did make me think about my education growing up and made me wonder how different my life would be if I have more culturally responsive curriculum. Would I be better at school would I have enjoyed school more would I be more confident in my skills? Admittedly initially this book felt a little woo-woo to me because she talks about cultivating Joy in students and teachers so much but honestly I appreciated it because it made me question why I was so pessimistic initially and why I felt like Joy was such a woo-woo concept. I liked how thorough this book was like she really gave so many examples of how to build curriculum around the 5 pursuits - Identity, Skills, Intellect, Criticality, and Joy. I recommend this to all my educator friends and hope that we as a society can implement curriculum like this nationwide (we need a big cultural/political shift first, but a girl can hope!!)

activefingers's review

5.0

challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

lakelivelaugh's review

4.5

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

mollib10's review

5.0

If you are in the field of education please take the time to read this book. I swear all the thoughts in my head were written in this book and I’m ready to take what I learned into my career.