Teach Me!

Frances Fox Piven

With disarming honesty, Murray Levin shares what he learned about his students, as well as what they managed to teach him. These young people are a wonder, sometimes inchoate, often sharply insightful and gloriously poetic. Levin is a wonder, too, because he found within himself the warmth, imagination, and intelligence to figure out how to speak to them.

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Levin tells of lessons learned from his three years of teaching Black and Latino high school students at a school in a Boston ghetto. His innovative pedagogy, focused on inspiring a radical political awareness of conditions that define the students' lives, incorporated elements of logic, systems and game theory, class consciousness, media theory, and contemporary political events. This revised edition has a new chapter that guides teachers on how to work with urban students. Levin was a lecturer in politics at the Harvard Extension School. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)