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Pockets of hope : how students and teachers change the world

Title
Pockets of hope : how students and teachers change the world / Eileen de los Reyes and Patricia A. Gozemba.
Author
De los Reyes, Eileen, 1954-
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.

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Additional Authors
Gozemba, Patricia A., 1940-
Description
xvi, 214 pages; 25 cm
Summary
Several alternative schools are studied, especially in light of how the democratization of choice by their students often goes against traditional educational choice reforms. These experiments embrace the ideas of Paulo Freire and his thoughts on decentralization of power in the educational system.
Series Statement
Series in language and ideology, 1069-6806
Uniform Title
Series in language and ideology.
Subject
  • Critical pedagogy > United States > Case studies
  • Alternative education > United States > Case studies
  • Alternative schools > United States > Case studies
  • Alternative education
  • Alternative schools
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Alternativschule
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214).
Contents
Foreword: Hope as situated pedagogy / Donaldo Macedo -- Introduction: Education as the practice of freedom -- Breaking the cycle, rising to question: the language intensive interdisciplinary program -- Crossing the bridge: peer education and mediation -- Moving from the field of terror to the field of hope: Project 10 East, a gay-straight alliance -- Aloha 'Aina -- Spinning a magical web in rural New Hampshire: the Appalachian Mountain teen project -- No ordinary teacher: Helen Lewis of Highlander.
ISBN
  • 0897895231
  • 9780897895231
  • 089789524X
  • 9780897895248
LCCN
00051925
OCLC
  • ocm45247309
  • 45247309
  • SCSB-1241429
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library