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Why School?
Mike Rose
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Description for Why School?
Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 116 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
Drawing on forty years of teaching and research, from primary school to adult education and workplace training, award-winning author Mike Rose reflects on questions related to public schooling in America. He answers them in beautifully written chapters that are both rich in detail - a first-grader conducting a science experiment, a carpenter solving a problem on the fly, a college student's encounter with a story by James Joyce - and informed by a deep and powerful understanding of history, the psychology of learning and the politics of education.
Drawing on forty years of teaching and research, from primary school to adult education and workplace training, award-winning author Mike Rose reflects on questions related to public schooling in America. He answers them in beautifully written chapters that are both rich in detail - a first-grader conducting a science experiment, a carpenter solving a problem on the fly, a college student's encounter with a story by James Joyce - and informed by a deep and powerful understanding of history, the psychology of learning and the politics of education.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781595589385
SKU
V9781595589385
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Ref
99-15
About Mike Rose
Mike Rose, a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is the author of numerous books, including The Mind at Work, Possible Lives, and Back to School (The New Press). Among his many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Award in Education, and the Commonwealth Club of California Award for Literary Excellence in Nonfiction. He ... Read more
Reviews for Why School?
"Once again at his most bold and brilliant…Rose is a rare treasure in this dreary moment of debate along the dismal flatlands of education discourse. He brings us to the mountaintops." Jonathan Kozol "Rose gives a larger sense of the interplay between what happens in the classroom and the world outside school…[and] a capacious sense of what can ... Read more