On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate

On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate

by Sondra Perl
On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate

On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate

by Sondra Perl

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Overview

Finalist for the 2006 Independent Publishers Book Award in the Autobiography/Memoir category

Most educators keep their teaching secret. In On Austrian Soil, an award-winning teacher, Sondra Perl, opens her classroom to reveal the struggles and successes she encounters when she, not without trepidation, raises the questions of history with her adult Austrian students, descendants of Nazis. Her students, teachers themselves, come face-to-face with the question of their responsibility not only to the past but also to the future. Perl's careful descriptions are an invitation to scrutinize her teaching and thinking as well as her students' own histories and hatreds. Writing together, she and her students break lifelong silences—discovering along the way the power of dialogue to transform deeply held prejudices.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791483596
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 02/01/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 258
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Sondra Perl is Professor of English and Urban Education at Lehman College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Felt Sense: Writing with the Body and coauthor (with Nancy Wilson) of Through Teachers' Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work and editor of Landmark Essays on Writing Process. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected Professor Perl as the 1996 New York State Professor of the Year.

Table of Contents

Author's Note on Names and Language

Introduction: The Road to Dialogue

1. A Simple Invitation

2. History Becomes Real

3. Interlude: Fall-Winter 1996-1997

4. A Second Course, A Second Inquiry

5. Whipped by the Wind

6. Interlude: Winter-Spring 1997

7. A Dialogue in Letters

8. Unexpected Lessons

9. Uncommon Ground

10. The Question of Forgiveness

11. When the Wind Whispers

Epilogue: On American Soil

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

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