Herbert Kohl (educator)
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Herbert Kohl is an educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books on education. In addition, he has co-edited A Call to Character: A Family Treasury, published in response to William Bennett's book, The Children's Book of Virtues.
Mr. Kohl received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Harvard University; a Master's degree in special education from Teachers College, Columbia University; and was a Henry Fellow at Oxford in philosophy. He began his teaching career in Harlem in 1962. In his teaching career, he has taught every grade from kindergarten through college.
Kohl served as the Eugene Lang Visiting Professor for Social Change at Swarthmore College during the 2005-06 academic year. Prior to that, Kohl was the director of the Institute for Social Justice and Education in the University of San Francisco's School of Education. He has also worked as a Senior Fellow at the Open Society Institute.
[edit] Partial bibliography
- 36 Children
- The Question Is College: On Finding and Doing Work You Love
- From Archetype to Zeitgeist: Powerful Ideas for Powerful Thinking
- The Open Classroom
- The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching
- Growing Minds: On Becoming a Teacher
- I Won't Learn from You: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
- Should We Burn Babar? Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories
- A Grain of Poetry: How to Read Contemporary Poems and Make Them a Part of Your Life
- Making Theater: Developing Plays With Young People
- Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times
- The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures (National Book Award for Children's Literature)
- On Teaching
- Book of Puzzlements
- The Age of Complexity
- Reading, How to: A People's Guide to Alternatives to Learning and Testing
- Nurturing one's dreams: A review of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of hope
- I Won't Learn from You! The Role of Assent in Learning, (Milkweed Editions: Thistle Series of Essays) 1991 ISBN 0915943646
- Painting Chinese: A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth
[edit] External links
- Radical Teacher's interview with Kohl on his work with the Institute for Social Justice and Education
- An interview on race and education from 2000
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