A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned | National Humanities Center

Work of the Fellows: Memoirs

A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned

By Jane Tompkins (NHC Fellow, 1990–91)

Teachers; Teaching; Students; Higher Education; Pedagogy; Education Theory

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996

From the publisher’s description:

In this text, one of America's leading literary scholars looks back on her own life in the classroom, and discovers how much of what she learned there needs to be unlearned.

Subjects
Education Studies / Teachers / Teaching / Students / Higher Education / Pedagogy / Education Theory /

Tompkins, Jane (NHC Fellow, 1990–91). A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996.