Real Teachers: True Stories of Renegade Educators

By Stuart Grauer

What is authentic education ? For that matter, what is a school? And what is a teacher? Over the last few decades, the American classroom has undergone a shift of enormous magnitude and the consequences of this are truly beginning to make themselves known. In Stuart Grauer's collection of true, short stories, Real Teachers , we are asked to consider the goals of contemporary education and ask: Is this what a school should be? Is this all a school can be? In Real Teachers , Grauer asks us to embrace discovery, individuality, perseverance, and possibility-to reconsider large class size, standardization, culture bias, risk-free schooling, and the sterilization of the curriculum. Through these stories of revitalization and a return to the roots of our culture and education, Grauer imparts a valuable lesson, incredibly relevant in this time where education is misunderstood, teaching is abused, and our students fall by the wayside. Real Teachers is a call to action, a call for change, and for a return to the community-oriented, regional education which was once dominant in our schools. Through this collection, Grauer invites us into the history of his life, his personal discoveries-his road to the growth that made him a real teacher.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590799704
• ISBN13: 9781590799703
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: SelectBooks
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"