The New Age Reader
Subtitle: Readings for Education in the New Millennium
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Format: Paperback
Description: This is a collection of contemporary and known essays on education and its possibilities. It boasts a hefty introduction entitled "Education by Metaphor" and posits that the traditional readers for secondary and post secondary education are outmoded and retarding. It promulgates new thought regarding instruction, curriculum, and the relations between teacher and student while advocating for a "higher" or more esoteric approach to studies from language arts to science. It includes works by celebrated writers such as Frost, Asimov, King,Jr. and Douglass and includes potent essays by Loren Eisley, Deepak Chopra, Audre Lorde, and Norman lear. The editor has included eight of her own essays on the new age classroom, writing, and "studenthood," a term she coined. The book has a companion text for classroom management entitled, The Studenthood Primer. It provides an annotated bibliography for the readings and a related timeline citing educational advancements leading to the evolution of this text.
Table of contents: title: Partial List; title: Education by Metaphor , A Declaration for "Higher Education" p.1  SDiane Bogus; title: A Black Woman Teaches Black Writers to White Students p.33  Claire Oberon Garcia; title: A Home-Made Education p.39   Malcolm X; title: A Vision of Competence p.43 Lanny Proffer; title: Big Man (&Woman) on Campus p.51 Catherine Gysin; title: Buddhism in the Classroom:An Educational Gestalt p.55 SDiane Bogus; title: Campus Racism 101 p 65--Nikki Giovanni; title: Canon Formation and Multicultural Literatures:A new Myth of Objectivity--Steven Frye; title: Do Students Understand Understanding?--David Perkins; title: Dr. Bogus' Teaching Philosophy--SDianeBogus; title: Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue--Robert Frost; title: Education for the Future:McKinney Leads the Way--Jimmie lee; title: Education for the Human Spirit--Norman Lear; title: Further Notes on Studenthood--SDiane Adamz-Bogus; title: Goals fort Higher EDucation:From Technique to Purpose--Walter Pozner; title: Greening of Education--David Orr; title: Guiding Your Life Through Colors  Stephanie Swanson; title: How I started Writing Poetry  Reginal Lockett; title: I Become a Student--Lincoln Steffens; title: If You Don't Ask, You don't Get, But If You Do, You Do Rick Gelinas; title: Lessons We Can Learn from the goose Barnacle--Robert L. Wolke; title: Let Us not Become Old People, A Response--Rene Ricasata; title: The Spirituality: mainstream North America is on a Massive Search For--Marci McDonald; title: Meeting of Minds--Phil Catalfo; title: Messages from Outer Space--John Locke; title: Messaes from Archangel Michael--Ronna Herman; title: Morals, Religion and Higher Education--Robert M. Hutchins; title: New Thougths for Old--Ernest Holmes and Willis Kinnear; title: Notes on Studenthood--SDiane Bogus; title: Of Pause and God--Sdiane Bogus; title: On Going to College--H. L. Mencken; title: On the Greening of Education, A  Response--Laura Stanley; title: Our Time Has Come: English for the Twemnty-first Century--Carol A. Pope; title: Pilgrimage to Nonviolence--Martin Luther King, jr.; title: Poetry is Not a Luxury, Audre Lorde; title: Letter from Red Jacket, Native American--Red Jacket; title: Religious Right-School-Board Take-overs Haven't Got a Prayer Or Have They ?--American Teacher; title: Shame--Dick Gregory; title: Should Our School Be More like Japan's?--Nicholas D. Kristof; title: Speaking Myself/Sharing Myself:How I Create Voice and Authenticity in My Writing--SDiane Bogus; title: States Seek Goals 2000 Aid for Exisiting Efforts--Mark Pitsch; title: Teaching That Goes Beyond IQ--Elaine Woo; title: The Art of Teaching Science--Lewis Thomas; title: The College Campus Climate for Gay Students--Robert A. Rhoads; title: They had fun--Issac Asimov; title: The Fromative Years, A Response to I Go to College--Paul Singh; title: The Future of Education--Hong le; title: The Hidden Teacher--Loren Eisely; title: The law of Pure Potentiality  Deepak Chopra; title: from The Woman Warrior--Maxine Hong Kingston; title: The New Age Classroom--Sdiane Adamz Bogus; title: The New Age Classroom, A Response--Shannon Maxson; title: The New Face of American, Teach Your Children Well--Paul Grey; title: The Practicality of the Liberal Arts major--Debra Sikes and Barbara Murray; title: The Prostitution of Higher Education--Gerald F. Kreychta; title: The Right to Write--Frederick Douglass; title: The Seventh Son : How I Learned to Teach Writing--Scott Sonders; title: The Science of the Student-Teacher Relationship--Andrew Cohen; title: The Two Classroom Culures: Challenge to Instructors--Lars Erik Larson; title: Lessons from the Electronic Classroom--Thomas Worley and Kenneth Casavant; title: Thought is a Very High Space--Sdiane Bogus; title: "Tradition and Poetic Memory"  Revisted--SDiane Bogus; title: Truth Makes a Comeback in University Settings--Helen lee; title: Uncovering the Essential Self--Tony Schwartz; title: What I Have Learned--ILya Ehrenburg; title: What Do You Want to Know in the Late Twentieth Century? Deborah E. Schultz; title: Why Literature Matters--Tim Gillespie; title: Teaching and Censorship: Writing the First person Essay--Eileen Vlcek; title: Milestones in American Education--A contemporary timeline--Sdiane Adamz-Bogus; title: Annotated Bibliography of the texts by Title--SDiane Adamz-bogus