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Blackboard : a personal history of the classroom / Lewis Buzbee.

Title
Blackboard : a personal history of the classroom / Lewis Buzbee.
Author
Buzbee, Lewis, 1957-
Publication
Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2014]

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Description
202 pages; 19 cm
Summary
"Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers ... histories of the key ideas informing educational practice over the centuries, which have shaped everything from class size to the layout of desks and chairs. Buzbee ... weaves his own biography into this overview, approaching his subject as a student, a father, and a teacher"--Amazon.com.
Subject
  • Buzbee, Lewis, 1957- > Knowledge and learning
  • Education > California
  • Educators > United States > Biography
  • Teachers > Biography
  • Classrooms > History
  • Education > History
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Orientation. Bake sale -- A child's garden -- Ride fast, Betty, ride fast, Tom -- Blackboard -- The life of the classroom -- School grounds -- Matriculation. In between -- Open campus -- Independent study -- Continuing education -- Epilogue: Out of school.
ISBN
  • 1555976832 (hardcover)
  • 9781555976835 (hardcover)
OCLC
  • 857967488
  • SCSB-10622026
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library