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| Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jerry Mintz; Carlo Ricci |
| ISBN: | 9780974525259 0974525251 |
| OCLC Number: | 654443524 |
| Description: | xxxviii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Preface -- Forward -- Author bios -- A lifetime of work to bring quality public education to all of America's children / Lynson Moore Beaulieu -- Finding what matters / Sharon Caldwell -- Turning to my mother / Lisa Delpit -- Transforming society : a partnership educational agenda / Riane Eisler -- Escaping education? / Gustavo Esteva -- My green river / John Taylor Gatto -- My education : an adventure story / Arnold Greenberg -- Journey to democracy / David Gribble -- Democratic education : a beginning of a story / Yaacov Hecht -- The history of a homeschooling magazine / Helen Hegener -- Looking for trouble / Matt Hern -- The evolution of a child listener / Helen Hughes -- Recalling the indigenous / Don "Four Arrows" Jacobs -- Inside-out learning / Mark Jacobs -- Walking off the beaten path / Shilpa Jain -- Some thoughts on my education and my work / Herbery Kohl -- Create the world that ought to be / Arnie Langberg -- The shoestring school / Mary Leue -- T.G.I.F. / Dennis Littky -- I feel so lucky to be right in the middle of it / Grace Llewellyn -- It's in my blood / Basir Mchawi -- What I've learned / Deborah Meier -- School : a manageable interruption / Chris Mercogliano -- The call of the zeitgeist / Ron Miller -- What do you mean, you've decided? We're supposed to decide! / Jerry Mintz -- Clonlara, an Irish-American creation / Pat Montgomery -- A teacher's job / Susan Ohanian -- Standing in the "tragic gap" between what is and what might be-in school. That's what I do every day / Kirsten Olson -- A life of learning : empowering, trusting, unschooling children / Wendy Priesnitz -- Do what we can / Carlo Ricci -- Memories of Barrie / Tim Seldin -- A moment in time / Herb Snitzer -- The second coming, sort of / Len Solo -- Educating for human greatness : a higher vision of teaching, thinking, and learning / Lynn Stoddard -- The world becomes what you teach : education for a peaceful, sustainable, and humane world / Zoe Weil -- Afterword. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jerry Mintz & Carlo Ricci ; associate editors, Isaac Graves & Jessica Graves. |
Abstract:
Thirty-five visionary educators were asked: What was your schooling like? When did you realize that there is a need for an alternative approach? What have you done since to help realize that vision? What are you doing now? Turning Points is an anthology of their responses, a peek into the lives and journeys of these pioneering individuals who have-and are-transforming what it means to be a teacher, a student, and a life-long learner. -- taken from front jacket flap.
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