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  • The Long Haul: An Autobiography by Horton, Myles
    Myles Horton

    The Long Haul: An Autobiography

    In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than 70 years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, including Martin...
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  • The Twists & Turns of Possibility: My Life is My True Story by McGrone, Principal Michael, Sr.
    Principal Michael Sr. McGrone

    The Twists & Turns of Possibility: My Life is My True Story

    The Twists & Turns of Possibility, My Life is My True Story is a riveting journey about a young man who grew up in Gary, Indiana. He was able to defy incredible odds to become a school principal, recognized all over the world for...
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  • Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller by Nielsen, Kim E.
    Kim E. Nielsen

    Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller

    A moving portrait of Anne Sullivan Macy, teacher of Helen Keller--and a complex, intelligent woman worthy of her own spotlight After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she and her peers had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is...
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  • Between Panic and Desire by Moore, Dinty W.
    Dinty W. Moore

    Between Panic and Desire

    "Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books--and, invariably, "hilarious." Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could...
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  • Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir by Robb, Daniel
    Daniel Robb

    Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir

    Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. By turns harsh, desolate, and...
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  • Teacher by Ashton-Warner, Sylvia
    Sylvia Ashton-Warner

    Teacher

    TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred...
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  • The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa by Fukuzawa, Yukichi
    Yukichi Fukuzawa

    The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

    Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) was a leading figure in the cultural revolution that transformed Japan from an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged player in the modern world. He translated a wide range of Western works and adapted them to Japanese needs, inventing a colorful...
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  • If School Desks Could Speak by Christesen, Miroslava
    Miroslava Christesen

    If School Desks Could Speak

    If School Desks Could Speak is a collection of true, humorous, and heartening vignettes from the classrooms of middle- and high-school students on both sides of the Atlantic. From being addressed as babe' to finding a father's personal item glowing in the dark; from...
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  • When Passion Meets Project by Aspinall, Brian
    Brian Aspinall

    When Passion Meets Project

    For all the kids who grow up in a small town and think they don't stand a chance.You do. I was once that kid.What is the one thing you have always wanted to try? Why haven't you done it? Surround yourself with people who...
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  • My Journey with Ernie: Lessons from a Turkey Dog by Speece, Heidi
    Heidi Speece

    My Journey with Ernie: Lessons from a Turkey Dog

    In a sleepy town in Virginia, Heidi Speece was a high school teacher in search of something new. The overachiever with a penchant for "to do" lists had grown bored with life. She knew she needed a change, and she found it when she...
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  • Mark Twain and Me: Unlearning Racism by Pritner, Calvin
    Calvin Pritner

    Mark Twain and Me: Unlearning Racism

    If Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were right when they wrote, in the musical "South Pacific," that you've "got to be taught...to hate all the people your relatives hate," then part of the path to a more equitable and tolerant society involves "unlearning"...
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  • Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science by Torbert, William R.
    William R. Torbert

    Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science

    Renowned senior member of the adult development, leadership, and organization transformation fields, award-winning researcher, consultant, and teacher, Bill Torbert offers us this final and signature book -- an anti-heroic memoir named Numbskull that shares his dramatic early life in Spain, Austria, Italy, and Somalia,...
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  • Moody Bitches by Holland M. D., Julie
    Julie Holland M. D.

    Moody Bitches

    As women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem. Bitches are moody. To succeed in life, we are told, we must have it all under control. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. Moods are not an annoyance...
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  • Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle by Jones, Ida E.
    Ida E. Jones

    Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle

    Best known as an educator and early civil rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1936, she organized and represented thousands of women with the National Council of Negro Women. She led the charge...
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  • One by One, the Stars: Essays by Stuckey-French, Ned
    Ned Stuckey-French

    One by One, the Stars: Essays

    A tireless and discerning advocate for contemporary practitioners of creative nonfiction, Ned Stuckey-French was at the center of every national discussion about the genre. He greatly contributed to our scholarly understanding of the history of the essay and was working on his first essay...
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  • From Cabbage to Cauliflower: Memoirs of an Obscure Academic by Monahan, William G.
    William G. Monahan

    From Cabbage to Cauliflower: Memoirs of an Obscure Academic

    From Cabbage to Cauliflower offers a testament to the power and capacity of education to open the doors of opportunity and accomplishment to even the poorest and least likely of the nation's citizens. Born to a working-class Irish American family in Bowling Green, Kentucky,...
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  • Unsilenced: A Teacher's Year of Battles, Breakthroughs, and Life-Changing Lessons at Belchertown State School by Shane, Howard C.
    Howard C. Shane

    Unsilenced: A Teacher's Year of Battles, Breakthroughs, and Life-Changing Lessons at Belchertown State School

    The year is 1969, and fresh-out-of-college smart-aleck Howard Shane has just landed his first teaching job--at Belchertown State School, a bleak institution where people with disabilities endure endless days of silence, tedium, and neglect.Howard is stunned by the conditions at Belchertown and the challenges...
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  • Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption by Bolden, Christian L.
    Christian L. Bolden

    Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption

    Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology​ Faculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orleans​ Out of the Red is one man's pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices combined to deliver an unfortunate fate. After...
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  • What Autism Gave Me: A Devastating Diagnosis To A Triumphant Life by Goodroe, Michael Haigwood
    Michael Haigwood Goodroe

    What Autism Gave Me: A Devastating Diagnosis To A Triumphant Life

    An Unexpected Story of Hope and Perseverance... As a young child, it was obvious something was wrong with Michael. He lacked basic motor skills and was unable to follow simple instructions or answer questions. Testing revealed a diagnosis of autism with a low IQ....
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  • Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics by Conway, Flo
    Flo Conway

    Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics

    Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics, catapulted him into the public spotlight, as did his chilling visions of the future and...
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  • Murphy's Boy by Hayden, Torey
    Torey Hayden

    Murphy's Boy

    "A story rich in reasons for hope." --Publishers WeeklyFrom the bestselling author of One Child, the true story of a boy who refused to speak--until a therapist's love broke through the silence. When Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a...
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  • Heroes of Hawaii by Enos, Solomon Nui
    Solomon Nui Enos

    Heroes of Hawaii

    Heroes of Hawaiʻi, written in English by Kimo Armitage and illustrated brilliantly in gouache-style by artist Solomon Nui Enos, uses many Hawaiian language sources to provide a balanced perspective of historic events. Many of the heroes such as Mōʻīkeha, Māʻilikūkahi, Kūkaniloko and others helped...
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  • Ḏamurruŋ'puy Mälk Saltwater Skin by McCarthy, Mary E.
    Mary E. McCarthy

    Ḏamurruŋ'puy M舁k Saltwater Skin

    Mary McCarthy is a storyteller, artist, teacher, healer, creative and intuitive who gently plaits her accounts in this exquisite memoir of living and working in remote Arnhem Land. From a young girl, Mary has had a deep connection to the land and to our...
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  • Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography by Blaxland-de Lange, Simon
    Simon Blaxland-de Lange

    Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography

    "Barfield towers above us all...the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers." --C.S. Lewis"We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free from the prison we have made for...
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  • Jefferson's Godfather, the Man Behind the Man: George Wythe, Mentor to the Founding Fathers by Munson, Suzanne Harman
    Suzanne Harman Munson

    Jefferson's Godfather, the Man Behind the Man: George Wythe, Mentor to the Founding Fathers

    Founding Father George Wythe was clearly the most influential teacher in American history, judged by student achievement in high public office. In this groundbreaking book, Suzanne Munson shines a light on Wythe's widespread influence on the country's first platoon of statesmen, those who set...
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  • Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Learning a New Master Narrative for America by Wolff, Robert Paul
    Robert Paul Wolff

    Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Learning a New Master Narrative for America

    An intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of...
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  • My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience

    The primary voice of the African American community from 1890 to 1915, and the author of Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington was an educator and orator as well as a founder of the Alabama school that developed into Tuskegee University. Washington proposed that...
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  • The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era by Forten, Charlotte L.
    Charlotte L. Forten

    The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era

    Charlotte L. Forten (1838-1914) was sensitive, intelligent, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other young Philadelphia women: she was black, destined to endure the constant insults that were accorded any person of color...
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  • Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh: On and Off the Record by Schmuhl, Robert
    Robert Schmuhl

    Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh: On and Off the Record

    For over half a century, Robert Schmuhl interviewed and wrote about Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., who served as the president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 until 1987. Beginning as an undergraduate student during the 1960s, when he covered Hesburgh and...
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  • The Schooling of a 21st Century Principal: Connections, Reflections, and Commentaries of an Unwitting School Leader by Cahill, Michael
    Michael Cahill

    The Schooling of a 21st Century Principal: Connections, Reflections, and Commentaries of an Unwitting School Leader

    "The Schooling of a 21st Century Principal" traces the author's journey to the principalship, a career goal nowhere to be found on his bucket list. He took the reins knowing his middle school faced some daunting tasks; however, he would soon discover that it...
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  • Wealthy Me (R) Academy by Tran, Hien Minh Thi
    Hien Minh Thi Tran

    Wealthy Me (R) Academy

    In this Inaugural Edition, Minh Hien and Farshid recall their compelling educational journeys over 40 years in Australia. They interweave stories of their experiences in sponsoring and educating students in rural areas of Vietnam, and in providing scholarships to support refugee students in Tasmania...
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  • Fragments of Time: From a Secure Childhood in Prewar Vienna to the Challenges of Emigration, Adaptation, and Pursuits in Science and in E by Lindenfeld, Peter
    Peter Lindenfeld

    Fragments of Time: From a Secure Childhood in Prewar Vienna to the Challenges of Emigration, Adaptation, and Pursuits in Science and in E

    It was a time of destruction of lives and futures and of rebirth and rebuilding. In his lively style with a wide sweep of insights Peter Lindenfeld recounts his personal and often intimate experiences, a microcosm of life during a time spanning nearly a...
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  • The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights by Moretti, Erica
    Erica Moretti

    The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights

    The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy. In The Best Weapon...
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  • Pope Francis: The biography - Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Great Reformer of the Catholic Church by Library, United
    United Library

    Pope Francis: The biography - Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Great Reformer of the Catholic Church

    Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, when he was named the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Bergoglio, the first pope from the Americas, took his papal title after St. Francis of Assisi of Italy. Prior to his election...
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  • Free Spirit: A Biography of Mason Welch Gross by Gross, Thomas W.
    Thomas W. Gross

    Free Spirit: A Biography of Mason Welch Gross

    The Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey, stands as a memorial to one of Rutgers University's most influential leaders. Gross started teaching at Rutgers as an assistant professor of philosophy in 1946, but quickly rose through the ranks to...
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  • From the Bayou to the Bay: The Autobiography of a Black Liberation Scholar by Smith, Robert C.
    Robert C. Smith

    From the Bayou to the Bay: The Autobiography of a Black Liberation Scholar

    Robert C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of many books, including African American Leadership (coauthored with Ronald W. Walters); John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance; and...
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  • Still Waters in a Storm: The One-Room School Where Everyone Listens to Everyone by Haff, Stephen
    Stephen Haff

    Still Waters in a Storm: The One-Room School Where Everyone Listens to Everyone

    Previously published as Kid Quixotes, the unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher unlock the revolutionary power of listening."Haff paints a picture of what education in America could and perhaps should be. His story is...
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  • " SOVEREIGN CITIZEN " by mika of the rasila family: Oxymorons, legalese and the illusion of government authority by Rasila, Mika
    Mika Rasila

    " SOVEREIGN CITIZEN " by mika of the rasila family: Oxymorons, legalese and the illusion of government authority

    Sovereignty, legalese, government, taxation, fraud, courts, law, legal, interpretation, freedomAuthor: Mika RasilaISBN-10: 1656594307ISBN-13: 9781656594303Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2020Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d
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  • A Dedicated Life: Journalism, Justice and a Chance for Every Child by Lawrence, David
    David Lawrence

    A Dedicated Life: Journalism, Justice and a Chance for Every Child

    #1 New Release in Children's Studies, Educators, and Public Policy ─ Leveling the Playing Field for All Our Young ChildrenReaders of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson will love Dave Lawrence's A Dedicated LifeWhat are you going to do for the rest of your life?...
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  • Alice's Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Müller, Melissa
    Melissa Mueller

    Alice's Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

    "How music provided hope in one of the world's darkest times--the inspirational life story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor" Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe; but,...
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  • Copper Country Journal: The Diary of Schoolmaster Henry Hobart 1863-1864 by Hobart, Henry
    Henry Hobart

    Copper Country Journal: The Diary of Schoolmaster Henry Hobart 1863-1864

    Copper Country Journal brings to life a culture and community long since passed from the American landscape. It includes a wealth of information, both within the introduction and throughout the diary, about the copper industry from 1845-1865. Hobart centered his narrative on Cliff Mine,...
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  • Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot by Unger, Harlow Giles
    Harlow Giles Unger

    Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot

    Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man, shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic. Mr. Unger has done a fine job reintroducing him to a new generation of Americans. --Washington Times Noah Webster The Life and Times of an American Patriot ""More than...
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  • Edward Sorin by O'Connell, Marvin R.
    Marvin R. O'Connell

    Edward Sorin

    This sweeping book offers the definitive account of the life and labors of Edward Sorin, founder of the University of Notre Dame. Born in the west of France in 1814, Sorin was ordained in 1838 and joined the newly founded Congregation of Holy Cross...
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  • One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's Memoir by Van de Ven, Susan Kerr
    Susan Kerr Van de Ven

    One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's Memoir

    On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an elevator on his way to work. At the time,...
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  • Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by Specht, Robert
    Robert Specht

    Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness

    The beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. "From the time I'd been a girl, I'd been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the...
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  • Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by Matteson, John
    John Matteson

    Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

    Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson--an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and...
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  • Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story by Holt, John
    John Holt

    Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story

    "If I could learn to play the cello well, as I thought I could, I could show by my own example that we all have greater powers than we think; that whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably can learn;...
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  • Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Mortenson, Greg
    Greg Mortenson

    Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

    The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer...
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  • Paulo Freire: A Philosophical Biography by Kohan, Walter Omar
    Walter Omar Kohan

    Paulo Freire: A Philosophical Biography

    Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most widely read and studied educational thinkers of our time. His seminal works, including Pedagogy of the Oppressed, sparked the global social and philosophical movement of critical pedagogy and his ideas about the close ties between education...
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  • Professor's Song: A Life in Teaching by Dowling, William C.
    William C. Dowling

    Professor's Song: A Life in Teaching

    William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature emeritus at Rutgers University. His previous publications include The Epistolary Moment: A Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle, Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, Jameson/Althusser/Marx,...
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