Turning Points
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Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories
Edited by Jerry Mintz & Carlo Ricci
Foreword by Alfie Kohn
432 Pages
Hardcover
6x9
ISBN: 978-0-9745252-5-9
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With contributions from:
| Lynson Beaulieu | Don “Four Arrows” Jacobs | Jerry Mintz |
| Sharon Caldwell | Mark Jacobs | Pat Montgomery |
| Lisa Delpit | Shilpa Jain | Susan Ohanian |
| Riane Eisler | Herbert Kohl | Kirsten Olson |
| Gustavo Esteva | Arnie Langberg | Wendy Priesnitz |
| John Taylor Gatto | Mary Leue | Carlo Ricci |
| Arnold Greenberg | Dennis Littky | Tim Seldin |
| David Gribble | Grace Llewellyn | Herb Snitzer |
| Yaacov Hecht | Basir Mchawi | Len Solo |
| Helen Hegener | Deborah Meier | Lynn Stoddard |
| Matt Hern | Chris Mercogliano | Zoe Weil |
| Helen Hughes | Ron Miller |
Description:
Thirty-five visionary educators were asked:
What was your schooling like? When did you realize that there is a need for an alternative approach? What have you done since to help realize that vision? What are you doing now?
Turning Points is an anthology of their responses, a peek into the lives and journeys of these pioneering individuals who have—and are—transforming what it means to be a teacher, a student, and a life-long learner.
Advance Praise:
"The [educators] we’re looking for are those who say, “I want to work to change this system so others will be spared what was done to me.” They have the compassion and the courage to shake up the status quo and denounce cruel traditions. They’ve mastered the art of negative learning and developed a commitment to making the world, or at least whatever part of it they come to inhabit, a better place than it was before they got there."
Alfie Kohn, Education Week (adapted from the foreword)
"Turning Points is unique and fascinating. It offers us insights into how some of our most significant educational innovators and visionaries experienced their own educations and how these experiences brought them to their callings as adults. The book is intriguing and informative both as biography and as insights into our history of educational innovation during the past 50 years."
David Marshak
Coordinator of Explorations Academy Online, adjunct lecturer at Fairhaven College, and author of The Common Vision: Parenting and Educating for Wholeness
"Anybody interested in Education will find Turning Points enlightening!"
Zoë Neill Readhead
Principal, Summerill School in England
"Turning Points is a marvelous compilation of personal memoirs of progressive educators. From Alfie Kohn’s stirring introduction to the heartfelt, intimate stories of some of the most influential progressive educators of our times, this volume is a revelation. This book is for those of us who need to get started and for those who need to be rejuvenated."
Rick Posner, Ph.D.
Author of Lives of Passion, School of Hope: How One Public School Ignites a Lifelong Love of Learning
Read more praise here.
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