I Won t Learn From You: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustmen - And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment

Informationen zum Autor Herbert Kohl is one of the country's leading educators and the author of more than forty books, including the classic 36 Children. Recipient of the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, among others, he was founder and first director of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and established the PEN West Center in San Francisco. Kohl lives in Point Arena, California. Klappentext Essays, previously published in somewhat different form by Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis. Zusammenfassung An essay on refusing to learn. Kohl draws on an idea of Martin Luther King Jr's, and talks about the need for "creative maladjustment" in the classroom and anywhere else that students' intelligence, dignity or integrity are compromised by a teacher, an institution or other social mindset. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsForeword to the 1995 edition by Jonathan Kozol IXForeword by Colin Greer XPreface XIIIAcknowledgements XVIII Won't Learn From You IThe Tattoed Man: Confessions of a Hopemonger 33Excellence, Equality, and Equity 89Uncommon Differences: On Political Correctness, Core Curriculum, and Democracy in Education 103Creative Maladjustment and The Struggle for Public Education 127

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• Authors: Herbert Kohl, Herbert Kozol Kohl, Herbert R. Kohl, Herbert R. Kozol Kohl, Kohl Herbert, Jonathan Kozol, Kozol Jonathan
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2012
• EAN: 9781565840966
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-096-6
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology