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The Discipline of Hope

Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching

By: Herbert R. Kohl

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The Discipline of Hope

Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching

By: Herbert R. Kohl

The Discipline of Hope" chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl's love affair with teaching since his first encounter 40 years ago. Kohl has been an ardent advocate of the notion that every student can learn and every teacher must find creative ways to facilitate that learning. In this book he distills the major lessons of an attentive lifetime in the classroom.

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156584632X

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The Herb Kohl Reader

Awakening the Heart of Teaching

By: Herbert Kohl

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The Herb Kohl Reader

Awakening the Heart of Teaching

By: Herbert Kohl

The best writing from a lifetime in the trenches and at the typewriter, from the renowned and much-beloved National Book Award–winning educator. In more than forty books on subjects ranging from social justice to mathematics, morality to parenthood, Herb Kohl has earned a place as one of our foremost “educators who write.” With Marian Wright Edelman, Mike Rose, Lisa Delpit, and Vivian Paley among his fans, Kohl is “a singular figure in education,” as William Ayers says in his foreword, “it’s clear that Herb Kohl’s influence has resonated, echoed, and multiplied.” Now, for the first time, readers can find collected in one place key essays and excerpts spanning the whole of Kohl’s career, including practical as well as theoretical writings. Selections come from Kohl’s classic 36 Children, his National Book Award–winning The View from the Oak (co-authored with his wife Judy), and all his best-known and beloved books. The Herb Kohl Reader is destined to become a major new resource for old fans and a new generation of teachers and parents. “Kohl has created his own brand of teaching . . . [He is] a remarkable teacher who discovered in his first teaching assignment that in education he could keep playing with toys, didn’t have to stop learning, and could use what he knew in the service of others.” —Lisa Delpit, The New York Times “An infinitely vulnerable and honest human being who has made it his vocation to peddle hope.” —Jonathan Kozol

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The New Press

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1595585737

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9781595585738

"I Won't Learn from You"

And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment

By: Herbert R. Kohl

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"I Won't Learn from You"

And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment

By: Herbert R. Kohl

A collection of essays explore the educator's views on teaching, learning, and the value of public education, includes thoughts on learning refusal, and the value of optimism

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153

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1565840968

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9781565840966

Stupidity and Tears

Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times

By: Herbert Kohl

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Stupidity and Tears

Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times

By: Herbert Kohl

A call to action against troubled public education systems cites practices that victimize students and teachers, assessing current methods that enforce "sink-or-swim" mentalities, force teachers to work against their consciences, and compromise creativity and intellectual development, in a meditative analysis that addresses specific challenges within such areas as educational budgets, state standards, and injudicious politics. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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1565849825

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The Herb Kohl Reader

Awakening the Heart of Teaching

By: Herbert Kohl

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Awakening the Heart of Teaching

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Painting Chinese

A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth

By: Herbert Kohl

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Painting Chinese

A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth

By: Herbert Kohl

As Herbert Kohl approached seventy, he realized the image he had of himself (energetic man in midlife) was not in keeping with how he was viewed by others (wise grandfather figure). To counter the realization that he was growing old, Kohl, a staunch believer in lifelong learning, set out to try something new. While on a walk, he happened upon a painting studio and on a lark signed up for a beginning class. When Kohl arrived for his first lesson, he was surprised to see the students were Chinese children between the ages of four and seven. Now, after three years of study, Kohl tells us what he learned from them. He shares the joys of trying to stay as fresh and unafraid as his young classmates and the wisdom he unexpectedly discovers in the formal tenets of Chinese landscape painting. As he advances into classes with older students, he reflects on how this experience allows him to accept and find comfort in aging. For anyone who feels stuck in the wearying repetition of everyday life, Kohl's adventures will clearly illustrate that you can never be too old to grow from new experiences.

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180

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608196526

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9781608196524

A History of Twentieth-Century Germany

By: Ulrich Herbert

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A History of Twentieth-Century Germany

By: Ulrich Herbert

Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years after World War II. But it has also boasted a strong welfare state, affluence, liberalization and globalization, a successful democracy, and the longest period of peace in European history. A History of Twentieth-Century Germany provides a survey of German history during a century of extremes. Ulrich Herbert sees German history in the 20th century as determined by two contradictory perspectives. On one hand, there are the world wars and great catastrophes that divide the country's history into two parts-before and after 1945. Germany is the birthplace of radical ideologies of the left and right and the only country in which each ideology became the foundation of government. This pattern left its stamp on both the first and second halves of the century. On the other hand, the rise of modern industrial society led to decades of conflict over the social and political order regardless of which political system was in force. Considering these contradictory developments, Herbert tackles the questions of both the collapse in the first half of the century and the development from a post-fascist, ruined society to one of the most stable liberal democracies in the world in the latter half. Herbert's analysis brings together wars and terror, utopia and politics, capitalism and the welfare state, socialism and liberal democratic society, gender and generations, culture and lifestyles, European integration and globalization. The resulting book sets a standard by which historians of the period will be measured in the future.

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Oxford University Press

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019007065X

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The Discipline of Hope

Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching

By: Herbert R. Kohl

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The Discipline of Hope

Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching

By: Herbert R. Kohl

It has been thirty years since Herbert Kohl taught the sixth-grade Harlem class he wrote about in his classic 36 Children. He has been teaching ever since, in kindergarten through graduate school, as he has pursued his lifelong work with children, adolescents, college-age students, and education professionals. In The Discipline of Hope, Kohl examines teaching as a vocation and as a skill, and examines his own love affair with it. He provides insight into how learning takes place in the widest range of circumstances, both in and out of a formal school setting. He demonstrates how schools and other centers of learning can be transformed so that they become places that nurture children while instilling discipline and how they can help students meet high academic standards, develop a sense of respect for themselves and others, and grow into successful adults." "Central to this book and at the core of the act of teaching as Kohl describes it is what he calls "the discipline of hope"the stubborn refusal to accept limits on what students can learn or what teachers can do by helping them discover the power of their minds. At a time when so many are complacent or skeptical about the possibilities of education, this book, with the experiences it describes, of teacher and taught, is an affirmation that provides guideposts, insight, and wisdom."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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360

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Simon and Schuster

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0684814129

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9780684814124

She Would Not be Moved

How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

By: Herbert R. Kohl,Cynthia Stokes Brown

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She Would Not be Moved

How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

By: Herbert R. Kohl,Cynthia Stokes Brown

Evaluates the ways in which the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott is misrepresented to children.

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146

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The New Press

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1595581278

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A Shield in Space?

Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative : How the Reagan Administration Set Out to Make Nuclear Weapons impotent and Obsolete and Succumbed to the Fallacy of the Last Move

By: Sanford Lakoff,Herbert F. York

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A Shield in Space?

Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative : How the Reagan Administration Set Out to Make Nuclear Weapons impotent and Obsolete and Succumbed to the Fallacy of the Last Move

By: Sanford Lakoff,Herbert F. York

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

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428

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0520328078

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9780520328075

The Leyden Papyrus

An Egyptian Magical Book

By: Francis Llewellyn Griffith,Herbert Thompson

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The Leyden Papyrus

An Egyptian Magical Book

By: Francis Llewellyn Griffith,Herbert Thompson

First complete translation of crucial 3rd-century A.D. manuscript of Egyptian magic, medicine. 15-foot roll of papyrus reveals spells, incantations, aphrodisiacs, invoking various gods. Probably compilation of practicing Egyptian sorcerer. Transliteration of demotic included.

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Courier Corporation

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0486229947

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9780486229942

After The Eagles Landed

The Yemenites Of Israel *now Available Thru Waveland Press *waveland Tel#-708-634-0081

By: Herbert S. Lewis

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After The Eagles Landed

The Yemenites Of Israel *now Available Thru Waveland Press *waveland Tel#-708-634-0081

By: Herbert S. Lewis

This book portrays aspects of the life of a community of over 1,200 Jews who were either born in Yemen, or who were, in 1975–77, the young sons and daughters of immigrants from Yemen. It contains implications for the important and currently debated topic of ethnic integration in Israel.

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Routledge

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0429713983

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Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Microbiology, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Features

By: Herbert L. Dupont

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Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Microbiology, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Features

By: Herbert L. Dupont

Enteric infection has played an important role in the majority of the world's populations, including children (particularly those under four years of age), the aged, the malnourished, military populations, and per sons from industrialized regions traveling to developing areas. The magni tude of the problem has been profound in areas of the world with reduced economic development, where there exists a greater reservoir of entero pathogens and a larger susceptible population with nutritional deficits. Morbidity from enteric infection in developing areas exceeds that seen in industrialized countries by severalfold, with the problem being most seri ous in infants who are bottle-fed and other infants and young children soon after being weaned from the breast ("weanling diarrhea"). Of greater significance than the inverse relationship of diarrhea morbidity with levels of industrial development is the relationship of death from intestinal infection and socioeconomic advancement. Mortality rate from diarrhea is 10 to 100 times greater in developing areas. In many parts of the third world, diarrhea, resultant dehydration, and associated malnutri tion are the leading causes of death in infants and young children and account for as great as one-third of pediatric deaths.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468436953

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9781468436952

Free Expression and Censorship in America

An Encyclopedia

By: Herbert N. Foerstel

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Free Expression and Censorship in America

An Encyclopedia

By: Herbert N. Foerstel

Despite the end of the Cold War, America's national security apparatus for controlling information has remained in place. However, sex and secularism are emerging as the major targets of censorship. Federal decency standards have been imposed on art, the broadcast media, and the Internet. Virtually every major political issue of the 1990s (abortion, campaign finance, violence on TV, homosexuality, indecency on the Internet) has First Amendment implications, and all are included in this comprehensive encyclopedia. This work covers the full history of America's struggle for free expression, as well as the contemporary dynamics represented by pop figures like Frank Zappa, Howard Stern, and Danny Goldberg and politicians like Jesse Helms and Don Edwards. It goes beyond other academic works of its kind by recognizing the primacy of the mass media and the Internet in defining the modern contours of the First Amendment.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313033072

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9780313033070

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The Discipline of Hope

The Discipline of Hope

The Herb Kohl Reader

The Herb Kohl Reader

"I Won't Learn from You"

"I Won't Learn from You"

Stupidity and Tears

Stupidity and Tears

The Herb Kohl Reader

The Herb Kohl Reader

Painting Chinese

Painting Chinese

A History of Twentieth-Century Germany

A History of Twentieth-Century Germany

The Discipline of Hope

The Discipline of Hope

She Would Not be Moved

She Would Not be Moved

A Shield in Space?

A Shield in Space?

The Leyden Papyrus

The Leyden Papyrus

After The Eagles Landed

After The Eagles Landed

Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Free Expression and Censorship in America

Free Expression and Censorship in America

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