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On Being a Teacher
Jonathan Kozol
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Description for On Being a Teacher
Paperback. Presents a critique on the role of the teacher in America's public school system. This book offers practical strategies that every reader can use for eradicating prejudices, developing young people's potential, and helping them to become warriors of social change. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184.
Jonathan Kozol, National Book Award-winning author and one of America’s foremost writers on social issues, offers a passionate and provocative critique on the role of the teacher in America’s public school system. Writing as a teacher, Kozol advocates an approach to education that is infused with ethical values: fairness, truth, and integrity, and a driving compassion for the world beyond the classroom. Kozol not only sheds light on what it means to be a teacher, but gives constructive suggestions on how teachers can work conscientiously within the system to foster these values in concert with parents, students and fellow teachers. ... Read more
Jonathan Kozol, National Book Award-winning author and one of America’s foremost writers on social issues, offers a passionate and provocative critique on the role of the teacher in America’s public school system. Writing as a teacher, Kozol advocates an approach to education that is infused with ethical values: fairness, truth, and integrity, and a driving compassion for the world beyond the classroom. Kozol not only sheds light on what it means to be a teacher, but gives constructive suggestions on how teachers can work conscientiously within the system to foster these values in concert with parents, students and fellow teachers. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851686315
SKU
V9781851686315
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About Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol is award–winning author of Death at an Early Age, Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, and The Shame of the Nation. He has held two Guggenheim Fellowships, has twice been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and has also received fellowships from the Field and Ford Foundations. He has been working with children in inner-city schools for more than 40 ... Read more
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