Titres dans Éducateurs

You Smell Better Than Soap: Education, Humanity, and Hope in Lockdown is a compelling collection of stories by a college professor who shares her transformative journey teaching inside the prison system. With honesty and insight, she recounts the emotional and intellectual complexities of bringing college-level education to incarcerated men and women. The title, inspired by a student’s disarming compliment, reflects the raw humanity and unexpected connections formed behind bars.

Fans of Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died will root for Bridey Thelen-Heidel as she struggles to unshackle herself from her mother’s chaos in this triumphant debut memoir. Bridey is tethered to her mom’s addiction to dangerous men who park their Harley-Davidsons in the house and kick holes in all their doors. Raised to be her mother’s keeper, rescuer, and punching bag, Bridey gets used to stuffing her life into black trash bags, hauling them between Alaska and California, and changing schools every time her mom moves in a new monster—or runs away from one.

Die Schule ist in vielen Familien das Problemthema Nr. 1. Dagmar Neubronner, Mutter der prominentesten ›Schulverweigerer‹ Deutschlands, schildert spannend und anschaulich, wie es kam, dass sie und ihr Mann trotz großer Bedenken den beiden Söhnen Moritz und Thomas erlaubten, frei zu lernen – ohne Schule und mittlerweile ohne jeglichen Pflichtunterricht. Wie funktioniert freies Lernen, und wie muss sich Schule verändern, damit es auch dort funktioniert? Was können Eltern und Lehrer tun? Mit ausführlichem Anhang zu pädagogischen und juristischen Fragen.

Step into the vibrant, complex world of a Chinese college through the eyes of a foreign teacher who has made it his home. In this heartfelt and deeply personal memoir, I invite listeners to experience the joys, challenges, and unexpected beauty of teaching in a culture vastly different from our own. From the quiet girl who poured her darkest thoughts into a journal to the aspiring musician torn between passion and family expectations, this book is filled with unforgettable stories of students navigating the pressures of academics, tradition, and self-discovery.

¿De qué magnitud es el reto de recomponer la Educación en el Perú? ¿Cuán importante es contar con gente comprometida en la función pública? ¿Es posible revertir la situación crítica de los sectores educativos? Mediante anécdotas personales y profesionales, ideas, estudios y datos que refuerzan sus planteamientos, el exministro de Educación, Jaime Saavedra, aborda en este libro algunos de los complejos retos educativos en el Perú, a partir de su experiencia entre los años 2013 y 2016.

Noam Chomsky has been praised by the likes of Bono and Hugo Chávez and attacked by the likes of Tom Wolfe and Alan Dershowitz. Groundbreaking linguist and outspoken political dissenter—voted “most important public intellectual in the world today” in a 2005 magazine poll—Chomsky inspires fanatical devotion and fierce vituperation.

As a retired high school English teacher and boys’ basketball coach of 38 years, Tom Lowery has helped thousands of students negotiate the ups and downs of high school life. During that time, he noticed many of the challenges they faced weren’t all that different from the ones he had to face growing up: things like relationships, the battle for good grades, and the wins and losses of the sports world. Tom began to ask himself why students nowadays are unable to handle life’s stressors.

A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams—were...

On a therapist’s advice, a teacher begins journaling about her school year in an effort to be more present for her family. Her journal documents the school year from beginning to end. Since her school year starts with a bad evaluation, which gets her put on a performance plan, the journal becomes a lifeline for saying everything a "good teacher" would never say.

Maria Montessori non fu certo una donna comune. Capace di destare le più entusiastiche adesioni e le critiche più malevole, fu oggetto al suo tempo di illazioni, maldicenze, pettegolezzi e, ancor oggi, il suo senso di libertà e le scomode novità del suo pensiero suscitano reazioni contrastanti.

After 15 years traveling the world in the high-tech industry, Tory Anderson found himself driving his first busload of kids. What started as an act of desperation turned into a life-changing experience that led to courage he was lacking and love he didn’t know he had. Bus Driver Diaries puts you in the driver’s seat with Tory to experience the world that unfolds on a bus in between school and home. Amid the noise and frustration, you will find a world of beauty, wonder, and humor. After listening to this book, every sighting of a school bus will bring a smile to your face.

Som ung lærer var Dines Skafte Jespersen et år på Hirsholmene, og det skildrer han her på den fornøjeligste måde. Han nøjes ikke med at tage sig af sine skolebørn, men går med liv og lyst op i befolkningens daglige liv. Med sin åbne sans for mennesker og natur kommer han hurtigt i kontakt med omgivelserne, og som den storartede fortæller, han er, forstår han at gengive sine oplevelser i al deres friskhed.

Illustreret af Leif Ragn Jensen.

Der Lehrer, von dem du gerne gelernt hättest (und deine Eltern wären froh gewesen, hättest du so einen Lehrer gehabt). Ein ganz und gar ungewöhnlicher Lehrer schreibt über die Erkenntnisse aus der jahrzehntelangen Arbeit mit Schülerinnen und Schülern. Die wichtigsten Dinge hat Dieter Bachmann nämlich nicht im Studium gelernt, sondern vom Leben selbst oder eben von den Kindern. Von Herrn Bachmann können wir wiederum lernen, wie man Kindern Vertrauen schenkt, wie man im Umgang mit ihnen authentisch bleibt, Haltung und Mitmenschlichkeit zeigt und dabei Kreativität, Toleranz und Kommunikation in den Mittelpunkt stellt.

From 1950s "housing project" child in segregated Texas to award-winning principal and published author, the inspiring story of how Theodore Timms beat the odds and learned the rewards of never giving up.

Life is never easy, but there are times when it feels like everything is against you. Tyra Hodge grew up feeling the world's weight pressing down on her. A nagging feeling awakened, whispering how she would never amount to anything the older she got. Daunted by the increasing demands of education and her private struggles, Tyra turned away.

In an effort to increase Romania’s population, the communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, authorized Decree 770 in 1967 that criminalized contraception and abortion. Abandoned and unwanted by their parents, thousands of children ended up in state orphanages where they were neglected and abused, and later became homeless on the streets of Bucharest.

For those looking to teach English in Japan or are already there, this series offers hard-won lessons of how to land with a running start and set yourself up for success.

On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of the (then) recently nationally syndicated children's television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding proposed for the newly formed non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was at risk of being reduced to $10 million.

After devoting half of his lifetime transforming his start-up business into a multi-million dollar industry leader, author John McLaughlin set out in a new direction: to teach what he had learned to others. Due to a lack of teaching experience, his only job offer was to teach entrepreneurship to prisoners at a minimum-security camp in North Carolina. John gradually builds an effective program until a scandal involving prison officials blindsides his progress and threatens to bring his teaching career to an unceremonious end.

This is the story of one man's journey from mind numbing insecurity to a facade of confidence. On his journey, he is able to meet many characters, finding humor and laughter on the way.