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Christensen, Linda – Rethinking Schools, Ltd, 2009
"Teaching for Joy and Justice" is the much-anticipated sequel to Linda Christensen's bestselling, "Reading, Writing, and Rising Up." Christensen is recognized as one of the country's finest teachers. Her latest book shows why. Through story upon story, Christensen demonstrates how she draws on students' lives and the world to teach poetry, essay,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Language Arts, Autobiographies, Literacy Education
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Gold, Suzanne – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1982
A humanities teacher describes various methods of teaching humanities to the elderly: the reading of autobiographies, group writing exercises, and the taping of a script about students' memories of their pasts. The author encourages the teaching of all subjects to the elderly. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Audiotape Recordings, Autobiographies
Dominice, Pierre – 2000
This nine-chapter book, written in Europe by a French-speaking Swiss educator, explores the rationale for using educational biography approaches in adult education and presents examples that illustrate various uses of these life history activities. Chapter 1 provides an introduction and overview of educational biography, and Chapter 2 describes…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students