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On Austrian Soil : Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780791483596, 9780791463895
LCC
DS135.A93 -- P497 2005eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1594892 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
261\261
Time added
2023-08-13 11:07:01

Description

Finalist for the 2006 Independent Publishers Book Award in the Autobiography/Memoir category Most 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.

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