| Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times Contributor(s): Kohl, Herbert R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1565848519 ISBN-13: 9781565848511 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2004 Annotation: A book about teaching well in troubled times, from the National Book Award-winning author. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Essays - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General - Political Science |
| Dewey: 371.102 |
| LCCN: 2003044204 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.82" W x 8.26" (0.75 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Stupidity and Tears, renowned educator and National Book Award winner Herbert Kohl offers us a thoughtful and ultimately optimistic meditation on the forces that conspire to keep teachers and students stupid--i.e., frustrated and unable to excel in an education system that is clearly failing them. Among the topics explored by Kohl are the pressures of standards based assessments and harrowing sink-or-swim policies, the pain teachers feel when asked to teach against their pedagogical conscience, the development of a capacity to sense how students perceive the world, and the importance of hope and creativity in strengthening the social imagination of students and teachers. A rousing call for common sense in the face of dwindling budgets, crippling state mandates, and injudicious politics, Stupidity and Tears is vintage Kohl--incisive, funny, reflective, profound . . . a provocation to educators to better teach all our children (Norman Fruchter, NYU Institute of Education and Social Policy). |