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To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher
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To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher
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by William Ayers and Gloria Ladson-Billings
Sales Rank: 24278
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List Price: $19.95
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Paperback: 151 pages
Publisher: Teachers College Press; 2nd edition March 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807739855
ISBN-13: 978-0807739853
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
I really appreciated this book. Ayers is very passionate about a teacher's responsibility to help their students become complete human beings. Reading this book, and Grant Wiggins Understanding by Design, in a graduate class renewed my passion for teaching, which is really a passion for learning. Education should be about the big questions of life, not just the details and basic skills that are tested and required by the state and federal government. Ayers is committed to developing whole and complete human beings, not automatons. My only issue is with his emphasis on social justice as the focus of education. While I agree that a concern for social justice will emerge in people who think for themselves, it seems as if his recommendations force this concern on kids a little too heavyhandedly. If we are to be independent, complete people, then naturally what concerns us will not always be the same. Nevertheless, his emphasis is better than many who want us to just teach kids to read words and add and subtract, but don't really care if they can think for themselves. On a side note, while I am disgusted by Mr. Ayers' past and his continued lack of repentence, I don't believe that it invalidates his philosophy of education.
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