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I Won't Learn from You: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment [Paperback]

Herbert R. Kohl (Author)
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Despite the social and economic despair that pervades many U.S. public schools, meaningful learning and teaching are nevertheless possible, declares famed educator Kohl. To overcome the "massive rejection of schooling by students from poor and oppressed communities," Kohl ( 36 Chil dren ), in these five inspirational, optimistic essays, outlines teaching strategies designed to unlock students' energy, intelligence and drive by encouraging them to envision ways to improve their world. He believes that both teachers and students should cultivate "creative maladjustment," channeling personal discontent into moral or political action. Kohl defends multiculturalist curricula as central to the struggle for fairness. Turning to higher education, he argues that issues of academic freedom and "political correctness" are used by neoconservatives to mask their desire to control ideas in the university and to push out ethnic and women's studies.
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The five essays in this book are powerful reminders that currently popular ideas of school choice may be only another trendy veneer disguising the deeply rooted problems of public education. Teacher Kohl (From Archetype to Zeitgeist, 1992, etc.) is an ardent spokesman on behalf of students, the people most neglected in debates about failures in the classrooms. The title essay explores the provocative idea that ``not-learning'' is a conscious choice made by children who observe, sometimes very early, that the school system is trying to impose on them values and behavior that are foreign and sometimes repugnant to them. Diagnosed as learning- disabled, stupid, or disciplinary problems, children who appear not to be able to learn to read or do math may simply have opted out of the system, choosing instead to put their intelligence and creativity to work outside school. In ``The Tattooed Man,'' he asserts that, before anything else can be accomplished, teachers must challenge the hopelessness felt by students. The ``norming of excellence'' and political correctness are the subjects of two other essays, accompanied by a devastating critique of E.D. Hirsch, Jr.'s Cultural Literacy and Core Knowledge series. Kohl attacks Hirsch's material as not only racist and sexist, but ``pernicious, stupid, and dangerous.'' Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call to be ``maladjusted'' to injustice and inequity is the theme of the last essay. ``Creative maladjustment'' consists of ``learning to survive with minimal moral and personal compromise in a thoroughly compromised world,'' says Kohl. In such a world, he argues, the failure of schools and teachers is often pinned on children--by diagnosing them with Attention Deficit Disorder, for example. He challenges teachers to take action by, for instance, refusing to turn such children over to special education classes. Some anecdotes and examples are repeated from earlier works, but this is must reading for Kohl fanciers and anyone looking for the humanity buried in the long debate about why Johnny can't read. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "I won't learn from you", Dec 8 2002
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Ellen B. Jenne (Oregon, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Won't Learn from You: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment (Paperback)
A teacher's role is to look past a student's outer shell to find what may be hidden inside and to search beyond the designated classroom curriculum for challenging way to entice a student to learn.
In Herbert Kohl's book titled " I won't learn from you" And Other Thoughts on Maladjustment, he talks about his experiences as a child growing up in a Jewish community in Bronx, New York and refusing to learn to speak his family's language of Yiddish. He relates how his experience of "not learning" helped him to understand why many of his students also chose to do the same thing. Kohl also speaks of the lessons he learned as a child from his imaginary friends, the "Masked Rider and the Tattooed Man". They provided him with the opportunity to dream about far away people and places. These dreams would one day lead him to discover the world and the lessons that could be found in places other than school. Through these struggles he learned that by focusing on a child's inter-strength instead of his inabilities and by developing approachable relaionships, he could develop in the child the desire to learn.
As one reads each of Herbert Kohl's 5 essays you realize how deep his devotion is to his students, his job as a teacher, and his community. In each of these essays he touches on many differenct aspects of being a good teacher, as well as, the value of listening to what a student has to say. To Herbert Kohl no student is a failure. It is the school system and society that has failed the student.
Every practicing teacher and pre-service teaching student should read this book to understand what is happening in the classroom. Herbert Kohls reminds us of why we chose to become teachers and our desire that each of our students may someday change the world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Creating Hope in Today's Students, Nov 14 2002
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Ria Caldwell (Bowling Green, Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Won't Learn from You: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment (Paperback)
Book Review- Ria Caldwell
Kohl, H. (1995). I won't learn from you: and other thoughts on creative maladjustment. New Press.

Kohl is now known as the classic speaker on "not learning" or refusing to learn that results in certain students' inappropriate placement into special education programs and classrooms. Kohl begins by describing certain situations and conditions that he finds himself in, requiring him to re-evaluate what it is that our students need. Hope as he refers to as "hopemongering" is the title of one of his chapters where he cites examples of how he has had to instill or rekindle the flame of hope that students so desperately need at times. Kohl provides some examples of how a student who would be viewed as a discipline or behavior problem might in fact be practicing his "not learning" ability or "right to refuse" as I like to call it.
Kohl addresses issues in education surrounding race, culture, economic, and linguistic differences that result in the diversity of each and every classroom in the U.S. He points out that the reasons for the amount of "dropout" teachers is exceeding the amount of "dropout" students and in order for this to change we need to adopt new ways of embracing these children who are often born into poverty. He emphasizes the importance of finding balance in order to achieve maximum effectiveness with our students. He indicates that the true art of teaching comes from being able to lead students to make discoveries that create their own meaning, purpose, learning and under-standing. Not "lecturing" them on the topic of equality but instead, facilitating their own critical thinking and encouraging them to find their own strengths and weaknesses and to explore their environments with a "new set of eyes." He also talks about fear of students, traditionally the fear that "white" teachers have of "black and latino" students, I would like to call this fear "culturephobia" or "colorphobia".
I think every teacher can find a part of themselves in the numerous examples cited in the book and am glad that I was able to read the words of a man who has so much to offer the educational institutions that exist today.

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4.0 out of 5 stars refusal to be maladjusted to the normal book review, April 26 2000
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rayfield boyd Jr. (Warner Robins, USA) - See all my reviews
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i am a college student majoring in education. it really is all about perception. i perceive students one way and you perceive students another way. be not deceived, the american school system has not changed from the time period that herbert kohl taught school. i thought the representation in the book of the diverse cultures was excellent. i also know that the five essays or stories in the book had much to do with racial equality as well as being politically correct in the classroom as a teacher. very good book and very well written. if i tell you that all teachers should read it, would you? probably not, but if you want more insight, it is definately a great book to pick up and read.
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