Teaching Stories: An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature

Author:   Robert Coles ,  Trevor B. Hall ,  Ernest Patterson ,  Michael Coles
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
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9780812971699


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 August 2004
Format:   Paperback
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Teaching Stories: An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature


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"In this remarkable anthology, some of the world's greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets ""render school life in all its complexity and variety."" Featuring writings by James Agee . Julia Alvarez . Charles Baxter . Raymond Carver . John Cheever . Anton Chekhov . Erik H. Erikson . Anna Freud . Thomas Hardy . Toni Morrison . Howard Nemerov . Flannery O'Connor . Tillie Olsen . Leo Tolstoy . Tobias Wolff . Richard Yates Ideal for educators and students of all ages, Teaching Stories will inspire anyone who loves great writing."

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Author:   Robert Coles ,  Trevor B. Hall ,  Ernest Patterson ,  Michael Coles
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Random House Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.312kg
ISBN:  

9780812971699


ISBN 10:   0812971698
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 August 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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ROBERT COLES is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize—winning Children of Crisis. A professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at the Harvard Medical School, he is also the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard. He lives in Massachusetts.

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