Description: In this remarkable collection of articles, teachers reflect on the complex worlds of their classrooms to gain a better understanding of their students, themselves, and the act of teaching.
Brief description: Irene Hall is a doctoral candidate in Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning Environments at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. An elementary school teacher for over fifteen years, she is currently Associate Director of Kids in Business, a creative learning program for urban youth. She is also writing a biography of Alice Dewey, cofounder (with husband John Dewey) of the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago.
Review Quotes: In the midst of all the discourse on education, school, and schools, there remains one constant the teacher. No matter how many innovations, reforms, standards, restructurings, and reorganizations are proposed, their significance pales in relation to that of the teacher. Much maligned and ever analyzed, teachers rarely have the opportunity to tell their stories. This volume both celebrates the teacher and forces us to look at and listen to the ways that teachers understand, rethink, and research their practices. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Author, "The Dreamkeepers," Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison"