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Author Perl, Sondra

Title On Austrian soil : teaching those I was taught to hate / Sondra Perl
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 228 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary "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 student's 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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228)
Notes Print version record
Subject Perl, Sondra -- Relations with Austrian students
SUBJECT Perl, Sondra fast
Subject Jews, American -- Austria -- Innsbruck -- Biography
College teachers -- United States -- Biography
Jewish college teachers -- Austria -- Innsbruck -- Biography
Teaching -- Case studies
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Composition (Language arts) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Intercultural communication.
Students -- Austria -- Attitudes
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY.
College teachers
Composition (Language arts) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
Intercultural communication
Jewish college teachers
Jews, American
Relations with Austrian students
Students -- Attitudes
Teaching
Austria
Austria -- Innsbruck
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Case studies
Autobiographies.
Case studies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Études de cas.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423743946
9781423743941
0791463893
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0791463907
9780791463901
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0791483592