Passionate learners and the challenge of schooling

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 124-136

  Fried, Robert L ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (8)

1. Esther Kingston-Mann and R. Timothy Sieber, Achieving Against the Odds (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001).
2. Evans Clinchy makes this point explicitly in Evolution and Education, a book he is currently writing.
3. Frank Smith, The Book of Learning and Forgetting (New York: Teachers College Press, 1998).
4. Sarason makes this point in a number of his books, but especially in Parent Involvement and the Political Principle (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995).
5. Marcia D'Arcangelo, "The Scientist in the Crib: A Conversation with Andrew Meltzoff," Educational Leadership, November 2000, pp. 8-9.
6. When I did this during a summer graduate seminar on curriculum, at which I first drafted this scale, I was surprised that the students saw me as significantly less "impassioned" about the topic than I saw myself. It was a sobering and useful exercise because it made me rethink how I was coming across to my students with regard to an issue that I am so very involved with as a writer.
7. See chapters 8 through 11 in The Passionate Teacher.
8. A friend of my parents, who is now deceased, was just such a teacher, and he wrote about his experiences in a book titled Pearls Before Swine.