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Teaching Defiancereviewed by Edward W. Taylor — August 10, 2006 Title: Teaching Defiance Author(s): Michael Newman Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco ISBN: 0787985562, Pages: 305, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com The United States is preparing for war against Iraq in the winter of 2003. Australias prime minister and government have committed troops in support of the war. In response, over 250,000 people gathered on a Sunday in February in Sydney and other places throughout Australia in protest of their governments actions. Against this backdrop, Teaching Defiance emerges, helping educatorsregardless of their settingwith stories and strategies to make the teaching of defiance central to their work. Steeped in the Australian brogue, Dr. Newman, a native Aussie, provides a practical face to a Freirean philosophy of teaching for social change. He brings a rich background of experience, including work as a community educator in inner London, a warden of an adult education college, a trainer for the Australian Trade Union, an author of several books on education and social change, and a senior lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney.
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- Edward Taylor
Penn State University, Harrisburg E-mail Author ED TAYLOR is an Associate Professor in Adult Education at Penn State University-Harrisburg. His research interests include transformative learning, nonformal education, and medical education.
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