Lou LaBrant : a woman's life, a teacher's life /

Lou LaBrant : a woman's life, a teacher's life /

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Hovedforfatter: Thomas, P. L. (Paul Lee), 1961-
Format: Bog
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Huntington, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 2001.
Fag:
La Brant, Lou L. > (Lou Le Vanche), > 1888-1991.
English teachers > United States > Biography.
Women teachers > United States > Biography.
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  • Machine derived contents note: I. BEGINNINGS 1
  • Chapter 1: Growing Toward a Life of Language-a Midwestern Childhood
  • at the Turn-of-the-Century 3
  • "The Earliest Part of Our Lives Tends to Color all of the Rest" 3
  • First Schooling Remembered-Helmick School 1894-1902 7
  • A Tale of Two High Schools-An End to the Farming Life in Cherokee 12
  • Chapter 2: Traveling Gradually Over Slow Roads-Baker University and
  • Struggling to Commit to Teaching 15
  • Becoming a Teacher-Lessons Learned 16
  • Moving Again-A Father Lost and a Turn toward Further Education 17
  • Baker University-Succeeding as a Student 18
  • To Teach, Or Not to Teach?-Teaching in Fits and Starts in the 1910s 20
  • CHAPTER 3: The Emerging English Education Advocate-From Dissertation
  • Research to University Scholar 27
  • The Oread Training School-Publishing as a College Professor 28
  • Expanding Her Area of Influence-National Publications 32
  • Methods for Teaching Literature-Speaking Her Mind 34
  • Turning toward Northwestern-Conmm itting to Education 38
  • Subordination in Student Writing-Completing Doctoral Work 40
  • II. EXPERIMENTATION AND TEACHER EDUCATION 43
  • Chapter 4: Experimentalism in Practice-The University School of Ohio
  • State and the Guinea Pigs 45
  • Joining the OSU Faculty-Academic Freedom, Academic Pettiness 45
  • The University School of OSU-Experimentalism in Action 47
  • The Guinea Pigs Speak-Progressive Education in Students' Words 50
  • From Practice to Print- Voicing Lessons Learned 55
  • Did Progressive Programs Work?- Twenty Years Later and Beyond 60
  • Chapter 5: Turning Toward Teacher Education and Language Advocacy-
  • New York University and Visiting Professorships 69
  • Becoming Editor, Gaining a New Stage- Hosic's "Educational Method" 70
  • Summers at Harvard and Bread Loaf A Talk with Robert Frost 71
  • Student Teachers at P. S. 65- Moving Toward a First Retirement 73
  • Advocating Progressive Methodologies Language as Living 75
  • Witty and LaBrant on Teaching Language "There Is No Short Cut" 81
  • The Science of Language Study "Teaching Language in New Terms" 82
  • An Advocate Taking a Stand- Defining How To Teach English 84
  • A Teacher Who Changed Their Lives-NYU Many Years Later 89
  • m. RETIREMENT AND MINORITY EDUCATION 93
  • Chapter 6: Working through Retirement- Moving to African-American
  • Education and Leading NCTE 95
  • Atlanta University and NCTE- Assuming New Roles, New Directions 95
  • A Career Interwoven with NCTE- LaBrant as English Education
  • A dvocate 98
  • Looking Back over the NCTE Years- LaBrant Fading from Memories 99
  • Memories of Her Legacy-Attempting to Reopen Missing Chapters 103
  • Moving Back to the Midwest-University of Kansas City 107
  • Moral Purpose and Context-Further Concern for Writing and Reading 109
  • Chapter 7: Heading South to New Orleans- the Prefreshman Program and
  • Dillard University 111
  • Dillard University's Prefreshman Program-Raising Expectations 111
  • Editorials for English Teachers- Stressing Effective Language Instruction 116
  • Final Years on the National Stage- Defending Life-long Positions 119
  • IV. LONG FLAME, FADING FLAME 125
  • Chapter 8: Traveling Abroad, Returning to Kansas-Outliving All that She
  • Had Lived for 127
  • Touring Europe, Family, and Loss-Refuting the Optimism of Poets 128
  • A Hundred Years of Reflection-In Her Own Words 131
  • Lou LaBrant-Her Legacy of Learning Language 134
  • Chapter 9: The Paradoxes of Lou LaBrant-Choreographer of the Child's
  • Mind 137
  • A Woman of Paradox-The Tensions of Her Life 137
  • Detachments from People and Places-An Unyielding Pursuit of Ideas 138
  • Experimentation as Proof-A Progressive in Her Own Mold 139
  • Valuing the Student and Teacher in the Ideal-Embodying the Eclectic 140
  • Suffering No Fools-A Choreographer of the Mind 141
  • Removing Masks, Filling in Gaps-Interpretations and Leaps of Faith 142
  • If LaBrant Could Respond-Did She Want This Spotlight? 144
  • Appendix A: Chronology of Lou LaBrant 145
  • Appendix B: Looking For LaBrant-Her Life, My Life 149
  • References 151
  • Works by Lou LaBrant 154
  • Works Co-written with LaBrant 158
  • Correspondences about LaBrant 158
  • Index 161.

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