To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher
by William Ayers
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Author: William AyersForeword: Gloria Ladson-Billings
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-03-01
ISBN: 0807739855
Number of pages: 151
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Book Reviews of To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher
Book Review: A very challenging book
Summary: 5 Stars
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 tested and required by the state and federal government.
Ayers is committed to developing whole and complete human beings, not automatons.
My only issue is with his emphasis on social justice as the focus of education. While I agree that a concern for social justice will emerge in people who think for themselves, it seems as if his recommendations force this concern on kids a little too heavyhandedly. If we are to be independent, complete people, then naturally what concerns us will not always be the same. Nevertheless, his emphasis is better than many who want us to just teach kids to read words and add and subtract, but don't really care if they can think for themselves.
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Summary of To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher
William Ayers writes, as a teacher, parent, student and observer, of the children he has known and of the things that actually happen in the classroom. His collection of vignettes should interest those involved in, or concerned with, the art of teaching.Educators Books
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