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On Austrian soil : teaching those I was taught to hate / Sondra Perl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perl, Sondra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perl, Sondra--Relations with Austrian students.
- Perl, Sondra.
- Jews, American--Austria--Innsbruck--Biography.
- Jews, American.
- College teachers--United States--Biography.
- College teachers.
- Jewish college teachers--Austria--Innsbruck--Biography.
- Jewish college teachers.
- Teaching--Case studies.
- Teaching.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- Composition (Language arts)--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Composition (Language arts).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Intercultural communication.
- Students--Austria--Attitudes.
- Students.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Finalist for the 2006 Independent Publishers Book Award in the Autobiography/Memoir categoryMost 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the road to dialogue
- A simple invitation
- History becomes real
- Interlude : fall-winter 1996-1997
- A second course, a second inquiry
- Whipped by the wind
- Interlude : winter-spring 1997
- A dialogue in letters
- Unexpected lessons
- Uncommon ground
- The question of forgiveness
- When the wind whispers
- Epilogue : on American soil.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-228).
- ISBN:
- 9780791483596
- 0791483592
- 9781423743941
- 1423743946
- OCLC:
- 461442419
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