Education Is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching

by Alison Cook-Sather

Book Overview

Education Is Translation offers a radical redefinition of the promises and possibilities of teaching and learning. Through an unusual weaving of not only disciplinary but also personal and academic, poetic, and analytical perspectives, Alison Cook-Sather argues that education can be understood as a process of translation through which every learner is both the translator and the subject of her own translation. Drawing on the fields of anthropology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221281
• ISBN13: 9780812221282
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"