This book presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers -- their complex lives as writers, as instructors, as feminists, as professionals in the academy. The authors explore their complex identities as teachers: the particular configurations of their pasts, gender, class, ethnic backgrounds, personalities, and cultures that have shaped their personae as instructors of writing.<P>The contributors explore the intersections of ...

In this prizewinning poet's wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, a precocious boy discovers a new world--and a new understanding of himself and his troubled family---on the gleaming waves of the Atlantic Ocean. ...

For twenty years Benjamin Ide Wheeler served as president of the University of California. During these years great changes occurred in the field of university education; many of them were the inevitable result of altered conditions in the life of the nation and of changes in the conception of a university and, as a consequence, in the composition of the student bodies themselves. It must be conceded that of a considerable number of these ...

Best remembered as the founder of Hampton Institute and mentor of Booker T. Washington, Samuel Chapman Armstrong played a crucial, role in white philanthropy and educational strategies toward nonwhite people in late-nineteenth-century America. Until now, however, there has been no scholarly biography of Armstrong -- his story has usually been subsumed within that of his famous protege. In Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited, Robert ...

Come travel with a twentieth-century family back to the nineteenth century. You will experience life in a two-room trapper's cabin: cooking on a wood stove, reading by propane light, running to a pump for water, and enjoying the warmth of an airtight wood heater. ...

1928. The story of Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby school, where he brought about many changes. Mathematics, modern languages, and modern history were added to the traditional classical curriculum, the monitorial system was introduced, and independent thought was encouraged. Arnold's reforms were influential beyond Rugby itself; his changes were adopted by most of the English secondary schools. Through the medium of his weekly sermons to his ...

CONTENTS: John Milton and His 'Academy' Francis Bacon and the Inductive Method Ratich and His Educational Claims Comenius and His Great Didactic John Locke and Education as Discipline Francke and His Institutions Rousseau and Naturalism in Education Basedow and the Philanthropinum Pestalozzi and Education as Development Herbart and Education as a Science Froebel and the Kindergarten Lancaster and Bell, and the Monitorial System Horace Mann and ...

If you are or have been a teacher, thought about going into teaching, know someone who is a teacher, have ever stepped foot inside a classroom, or were just a pain in the butt student then this is a book for you. Some things that happen at work just have to be shared with the world. Enjoy and if you're considering a career in teaching, GOOD LUCK! ...

More Hlavacek family history can be found in two books written by Pegge: Diapers on a Dateline and Alias Pegge Parker. Both books are available through iUniverse. Diapers on a Dateline tells the story of Pegge and John's family life in India from 1952 to 1957. Pegge continued to write while raising five children, interviewing a fascinating array of celebrities. Spanning a time period from 1941 to 1961, Alias Pegge Parker includes a bonus: four ...

Includes 84 letters written to Kuyper, Bavinck, Warfield, Machen, and others; the editor's biography of Vos and the editor's bibliography of Vos's writings. ...