Lives on the Boundary - Softcover

Rose, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140124039 ISBN 13: 9780140124033

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1990

Synopsis

Argues that children from lower class backgrounds are unfairly labeled as problem students, and suggests new educational policies

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Rose is a professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He has taught in a wide range of educational settings, from elementary school to adult literacy and job training programs. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Award in Education, and awards from the Spencer Foundation, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Modern Language Association, and the American Educational Research Association. He also received the Commonwealth Club of California’s Award for Literary Excellence in Nonfiction. His books include Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America’s Educationally Underprepared, Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America, The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker, Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us, and Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education.

From Library Journal:

Because a teacher believed in him, Rose (writing program, UCLA) was able to escape from poverty and go to college. There he floundered, unfamiliar with the conventions and demands of academic discourse, until another teacher realized his potential and took a personal interest in him. In Lives , Rose talks about the tremendous barriers to learning which handicap the underprivileged in their striving to educate themselves. Rose uses examples from his own and his students' lives to show how change takes place through a dialogue of possibility between teacher and pupil. "Knowledge gained its meaning, at least initially, through a touch on the shoulder." Rose impresses upon us the importance of reaching these students and convinces us that they can be saved. An admirable, life-affirming book, deserving a wide readership.
- David Keymer, Coll. of Technology, Utica
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140124039
• ISBN 13: 9780140124033
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272