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The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching de Herbert Kohl

The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching

Autor Herbert Kohl
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2000
The Discipline of Hope chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl’s love affair with teaching since his first encounter forty years ago, chronicled in his now-classic 36 Children. Beginning with his years in New York public schools and continuing throughout his four decades of working with students from kindergarten through college across the country, Kohl has been an ardent advocate of the notion that every student can learn and every teacher must find creative ways to facilitate that learning. In The Discipline of Hope he distills the major lessons of an attentive lifetime in the classroom.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781565846326
ISBN-10: 156584632X
Pagini: 350
Dimensiuni: 140 x 209 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: New Press
Colecția The New Press

Recenzii

"A book that will recharge a teacher’s batteries." &#8212Kirkus Reviews

"A compelling mix of theory and autobiography. . . of interest to anyone who sends a child to school." &#8212Booklist

"A wonderful book for teachers and for everyone who cares about children." &#8212Marian Wright Edelman

"An inspiring account of nearly four decades as a public school teacher and reformer." &#8212San Francisco Chronicle

Notă biografică

Herbert Kohl is a celebrated writer, teacher, and advocate. He is the author of more than forty books, including “I Won’t Learn from You”: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment, Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children’s Literature and the Power of Stories, The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching, Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times, She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and The Herb Kohl Reader: Awakening the Heart of Teaching (all published by The New Press), as well as the bestselling classic 36 Children. He is a co-author, with Judith Kohl, of The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures and a co-editor, with Tom Oppenheim, of The Muses Go to School: Inspiring Stories About the Importance of Arts in Education, both published by The New Press. A recipient of a National Book Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, he was the founder and first director of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative in New York City, has served as a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute, and established the PEN West Center. In 2010, Kohl was named a Guggenheim Fellow in education. He lives in Point Arena, California.

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"The Discipline of Hope" chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl's love affair with teaching since his first encounter 40 years ago. Kohl has been an ardent advocate of the notion that every student can learn and every teacher must find creative ways to facilitate that learning. In this book he distills the major lessons of an attentive lifetime in the classroom.