A Place to Stand
Subtitle: Essays for Educators in Troubled Times (Surviving Innovation, V. 1)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL; University of Michigan Press
Published: March 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780472088799
Subjects: Central government policies; Organization & management of education; Philosophy Of Education; Teaching skills & techniques; Educational Reform; Education; Education / Teaching; English; English as a Second Language; Essays; Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Educational Policy & Reform; General; Educational change; Effective teaching; Philosophy; United States
Description: Many teachers enter their profession with a dream of making the world a better place, but they are soon overwhelmed with the realities of working in the educational system and distracted from the dream that inspired them in the first place. In a series of eloquent and moving essays, the author gives renewed hope to teachers who can still imagine a better world and are committed to working toward it. This is a book for people who are dissatisfied with the status quo and discouraged by the pace of change.