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Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth (The Works of William James)

3 reviews
William James

Harvard University Press, 2005

America's philosophical gift to the world
'Pragmatism' is the one philosophical school that America gave to the world. Along with Charles Pierce and later on John Dewey , William James is the great creator of this philosophy. However as could be expected by anyone who has studied Philosophy the exact meaning and intention of James, and the others is a subject for dispute and interpretation. In one sense Pragmatism is a 'theory of ...

The Good Preschool Teacher: Six Teachers Reflect on Their Lives (Early Childhood Education Series)

1 review
William Ayers

Teachers College Press, 1989

Giving teachers a voice!
Bill Ayers gives 6 talented preschool teachers a stage on which to tell about their craft. Teachers are so rarely given a voice. Preschool teachers are a group even more devalued than teachers of older children. Ayers allows us to see these women as masters, allowing them the depth of discussion and reflection great teaching deserves. Bravo!

A Kind and Just Parent

2 reviews
William Ayers

Beacon Press, 1998

Great stories of juveniles and justice system in trouble.
This is a story of children, real children, still soft inside, and yet with a force field that can put off both the kindest and the most brutal attacks one can inflict. It is a story of a justice system long gone amuck, but often with good intentions, and some surprisingly good people lighting up the corners. Ayers is a good tale-teller, and catches students at the juvenile detention "home" ...

City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row

3 reviews

New Press, 1996

Teaching in the '90's by:Deanna Shankles
I am a student at Macon State College. I had to read the book "City Kids, City Teachers" for my education class. I, being an early childhood development major found this book very interesting and enlightening. It gives people a look at very different children from all different kinds of backgrounds and gives you insight into their lives and personal struggles. It also gives very good advice ...

Teaching Toward Freedom

1 review
William Ayers

Beacon Press, 2005

Teaching Toward...Freedom?
I had to read this book for one of my teaching classes, and out of all the awful books my instructor assigned during the semester, this one was the worst. First of all, Mr. Ayers includes so many poems in it that he may as well have just compiled an anthology. Most of them are not even good poems. They are the likes of that which you might see a 10 year old write. I don't know why he bothered ...

Fugitive Days

60 reviews
William Ayers

Beacon Press, 2001

Revolutionary hubris
I fully understand the revulsion that some people feel toward the author of this book, though I do not share that revulsion. William Ayers wanted to end the Vietnam war, which was a noble goal. He contributed absolutely nothing toward ending the war. Like most Americans, I was against the war, and I embraced the counter-culture, as I felt American culture had little to offer of value. But no ...

Race Course Against White Supremacy
William C. Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn

Third World Press, 2009

White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days?and that it is still very much with us?the discussion points to unexamined bigotry in the criminal justice system, election processes, war policy, and education. The book draws upon the authors' own ...

To Become a Teacher: Making a Difference in Children's Lives

2 reviews

Teachers College Press, 1995

A must for every person pursuing a career in education
To Become A Teacher...Making a Difference in Children's Lives edited by William Ayers. This is not a book that one should ingest at one single reading. This IS a book that needs to be read at a pace so that one's mind can process and digest each sentence with the words being broken down in order to become one with the reader. Every person pursuing the "call" of becoming a teacher needs to read ...

The Herb Kohl Reader: Awakening the Heart of Teaching
Herbert Kohl

New Press, 2009

The best writing from a lifetime in the trenches and at the typewriter, from the renowned and much-beloved National Book Award-winning educator. In more than forty books on subjects ranging from social justice to mathematics, morality to parenthood, Herb Kohl has earned a place as one of our foremost "educators who write." With Marion Wright Edelman, Mike Rose, Lisa Delpit, and Vivian Paley among his fans, Kohl is "one of only a ...

To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher

12 reviews
William Ayers

Teachers College Press, 2001

A very challenging book
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 ...

City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row

New Press, 2008

A follow-up to the classic collection on the realities of teaching and learning in urban schools. Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row , this new and timely collection has been compiled by four of the country's most prominent urban educators. Contributors including Sandra Cisneros, ...

Psychology And Dentistry: Mental Health Aspects Of Patient Care
William Ayer

Routledge, 2005

A practical guide to an often neglected aspect of dentisty, the contributions of the behavioural sciences to dental research and practice. Enahanced doctor patient relationships will lead to improved quality of care and reduce some of the stress of practice.

Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment

1 review
Rick Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, ...

New Press, 2001

Everyone should read this!
Teachers, administrators, parents, and taxpayers should read this book. As a criminal justice student, this was not my first encounter with studies that show corporal punishment, humiliation-based punishments and exclusionary tactics work against rather than for the safety policy makers, board members and principals hope to achieve. Zero Tolerance polices grew largely out of fears of violence ...

A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools (Teaching for Social Justice Series)

1 review

Teachers College Press, 2000

small schools are great but how do we get them?
I emphatically agree with the book's central message: Small schools are greatly preferable to large. (I went through public school in L.A.; I should know.) The book gives many wonderful examples of how small schools have revolutionized education in a number of places where public schools had been failing their students. The authors were among those dedicated enough to see through the building, ...

On the Side of the Child: Summerhill Revisited (Between Teacher and Text, 2)
William Ayers

Teachers College Press, 2003

Here, Bill Ayers speaks as a parent and educator who has spent years in the classroom experimenting with A.S. Neill's progressive approach. While he admits to being a fan of Neill's, he also admits that Neill's techniques "seemed more than a little loony" when they first appeared.

Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justice (Teaching for Social Justice, 11)
William Ayers

Teachers College Press, 2004

Teaching for Social Justice These essays follow a veteran teacher educator and school reform activist as he tries to understand an enterprise he calls "mysterious and immeasurable." By focusing on the authentic experiences of his teaching and learning, Bill Ayers reconsiders, argues, reflects, and searches for ways to break through the routine and the ordinary to see teaching as the important and extraordinary work it is. Covering a range of ...

Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Teaching for Social Justice, 8)
Cynthia Stokes Brown

Teachers College Press, 2002

Why and how have whites joined the fight against white supr

Teacher Lore: Learning from Our Own Experience (Classics in Education (Troy, N.Y.).)

1 review

Educator's International Press, 1999

Teacher Lore: Learning from our own experience
Bravo to William Schubert and William Ayers, for helping to validate the "insight and understanding" (p. vii) teachers bring to the world of education! Teachers need to take the reflective insights gained in the confides of their classrooms and help "give rise to communities of teachers who learn more from each other through writing, reading, listening, talking, and most of all reflecting" ...

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