Title: The discipline of hope : learning from a lifetime of teaching /
Authors: Kohl, Herbert R.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Kohl, Herbert R.; Teachers United States Biography; Effective teaching United States.; Teacher-student relationships United States; Children with social disabilities Education (Elementary) United States.
Abstract: "Kohl examines teaching as a vocation and as a skill, and examines his own love affair with it."
Contents: Introduction: A Lifetime of Teaching -- Ch. 1. Setting Out. To Not Know. Listening and Learning. How Many Children? -- Ch. 2. Teaching Well in a Troubled System. Excessive Socializing. Business As Usual. Teaching Steady and Getting Angry -- Ch. 3. Teaching Beyond School. Teaching Again -- with a Difference. Serendipity Strikes. Teaching Close Up -- Ch. 4. Teaching on the Edge. Other Ways. Theater and the Making of a Learning Community. Growing a School. Graduating to Kindergarten -- Ch. 5. Fresh Waters Are Ever Flowing. Alder Creek. Building a World. Culture Skirmishes -- "To the Foot from Its Child": Teaching as the Discipline of Hope.