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36 Children - Herbert Kohl
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Title: 36 Children
Author: Herbert Kohl
Publisher: Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1972
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Some discolouration on page margins and minimal underlining, but generally in very good condition
36 Children is a guide to teaching in impoverished schools, based on the personal experiences of the author. The book includes a chapter titled "Journey through Space and Time", written and illustrated by Robert George Jackson III, one of his students, age eleven. Other material written and illustrated by Jackson and other students is included in the book. First published in 1967 it was republished in September 1988 by Penguin Reviewer Peter Schrag commented that the work contains "tough but (usually) sympathetic kids, callous administrators, and a collection of fearful school types spouting hate through their pieties and educational nonsense through their apathy" while "the writer-protagonist is part anthropologist fascinated by the ghetto, part muckraking journalist, and part teacher struggling manfully to work with the children placed in his care." It has since been cited by a number of academic journals.
Author: Herbert Kohl
Publisher: Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1972
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Some discolouration on page margins and minimal underlining, but generally in very good condition
36 Children is a guide to teaching in impoverished schools, based on the personal experiences of the author. The book includes a chapter titled "Journey through Space and Time", written and illustrated by Robert George Jackson III, one of his students, age eleven. Other material written and illustrated by Jackson and other students is included in the book. First published in 1967 it was republished in September 1988 by Penguin Reviewer Peter Schrag commented that the work contains "tough but (usually) sympathetic kids, callous administrators, and a collection of fearful school types spouting hate through their pieties and educational nonsense through their apathy" while "the writer-protagonist is part anthropologist fascinated by the ghetto, part muckraking journalist, and part teacher struggling manfully to work with the children placed in his care." It has since been cited by a number of academic journals.
- Date Listed:17/07/2015
- Last Edited:06/01/2020
- Condition:Used
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