Title A journalist's education in the classroom : the challenge of school reform / David S. Awbrey.

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Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (139 pages)
	Bibliography
Contents	Why teach? Why Pipkin? -- Imagining history -- Teaching Charlemagne -- A monk's education -- Generation global -- Class matters -- Faith in history -- Courting middle schoolers -- Medieval visions -- Miseducated educators -- The hell of denial -- The stalled crusade -- People of history -- What the teacher learned.
Summary	After a career in journalism, the author became a middle-school social studies teacher in Springfield, Missouri, a typical American community that he uses as a case study to explore many of the social and academic problems facing education nationwide. This book is an account of his experiences teaching medieval and Renaissance history. What he found in the classroom should alarm all Americans: students obsessed with popular culture and disengaged from academics, teachers intellectually unprepared for the 21st-century global society, and an educational establishment focused more on protecting its own power than on ensuring that the next generation possesses the scholastic skills necessary to advance American democracy and prosperity. But he also offers hope. Citing historical precedents, including Charlemagne's lifting Europe out of the ignorance of post-Roman Empire barbarism and the 15th-century Italian Renaissance, he examines how the rediscovery of classical learning preserved Western civilization and persuasively argues that America's future hinges on a similar restoration of the liberal arts to primacy in the nation's schools.--From publisher.
Note	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject	Awbrey, David S.
	Awbrey, David S. (OCoLC)fst01541487
	Middle school teaching -- United States -- Anecdotes.
	Journalists -- United States.
	Middle school teachers -- United States.
	Teacher-student relationships -- United States.
	Teaching -- United States.
	Education -- United States.
	Educational change -- United States.
	EDUCATION -- Secondary.
	Education. (OCoLC)fst00902499
	Educational change. (OCoLC)fst00903371
	Journalists. (OCoLC)fst00984188
	Middle school teachers. (OCoLC)fst01020546
	Middle school teaching. (OCoLC)fst01020552
	Teacher-student relationships. (OCoLC)fst01144236
	Teaching. (OCoLC)fst01144565
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Other Form:	Print version: Awbrey, David S. Journalist's education in the classroom. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010 9781607097136 (DLC) 2010023330 (OCoLC)643322366
ISBN	9781607097150 (electronic bk.)
	160709715X (electronic bk.)

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