Research Catalog

Title

Letters of recommendation / Maxine McClintock.

Author

McClintock, Maxine Bookstaber

Publication

• New York, NY : The Reflective Commons, [2013]
• ©2013

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Subject

• Student-centered learning
• Transformative learning
• Reflective learning
• Learning strategies
• Effective teaching

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Emilia starts the school year with writer's block and second thoughts -- Doc offers a not-so-modest proposal -- Emilia regards teachers as persons of interest -- What are we talking about when we talk about education? -- Emilia rereads Randolph Bourne's essay and writes one of her own -- The tale of a queen bee and a double life -- Emilia launches a campaign to pop the bubble at Alden -- Doc lays the groundwork for a teachable moment -- Blind-sided by good intentions -- Cultivating the fine art of detachment -- Emilia is definitely not in a holiday mood -- To move on, Emilia is advised to let go -- Emilia stands her ground : independent study proposal William James -- Learning to love the questions themselves -- The year ends with a rapprochement and a walk -- Investigating the octopus that threatened Harvard -- Doc recommends thinking like a historian -- The world turned upside down and inside out -- Attending to the "fall of Icarus" -- Emilia follows her nose -- Doc gives citizen Emilia something to ponder -- Becoming acquainted with the young man from Wisconsin -- Nuts and bolts : independent study schedule Emilia Carlyle -- For For Emilia the issue is one of character -- Doc counsels Emilia to keep complexity in mind as she investigates character -- Character's corrupters, or bigness and the club opinion -- Doc draws an analogy between working-out and exercising reason -- To know a good man when you see one -- Occupying interstices to raise democracy's tone -- On the outs with the Cancún contingent -- Doc makes the case for solitude -- Conversation about a community activist and other dinner party illuminations -- Emilia voices reservations about utopian visions -- 'Having it all' and Russian roulette -- Crossing a finish line -- Emilia finds some words -- Finding intimations of the possible in a well-formed ankle and a polka-dotted cravat

ISBN

• 9781937828004
• 193782800X

OCLC

• 906129958
• SCSB-11810345

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library