Conclusion Building systems of CPE is a much more complex process than creating preservice education programs for professionals that are limited to a specific How does an individual choose to become an adult and continuing educator?
His concept of reflective practice had an impact on many topics in the adult and continuing education literature, which I have grouped into four major areas. If we see professional practice as Schon's unique focus, it is not surprising Continuing education, continuing professional development, and highvalue continuing professional development exist along a continuum.
Education Posted on Continuing education centers Posted on Fiction Posted on Author : C. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages. She has six grandchildren and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her partner and a cavalier King Charles spaniel, Dawn. What brought you to a career as a writer? I seem to have been born with my head full of stories. For almost as far back as I can remember, I used most of my unoccupied moments--even in school when I was supposed to be doing other "more important" things--to make up stories in my head.
I sometimes got a notation on my report card that said, "Marion dreams. But while the stories I wove occupied my mind in a very satisfying way, they were so complex that I never thought of trying to write them down. I wouldn't have known where to begin. So though I did all kinds of writing through my teen and early adult years--letters, journals, essays, poetry--I didn't begin to gather the craft I needed to write stories until I was in my early thirties.
That was also when my last excuse for not taking the time to sit down to do the writing I'd so long wanted to do started first grade. And why write for young people? Because I get my creative energy in examining young lives, young issues. Most people, when they enter adulthood, leave childhood behind, by which I mean that they forget most of what they know about themselves as children.
Of course, the ghosts of childhood still inhabit them, but they deal with them in other forms--problems with parental authority turn into problems with bosses, for instance--and don't keep reaching back to the original source to try to fix it, to make everything come out differently than it did the first time. Most children's writers, I suspect, are fixers.
We return, again and again, usually under the cover of made-up characters, to work things through. I don't know that our childhoods are necessarily more painful than most. Every childhood has pain it, because life has pain in it at every stage. The difference is that we are compelled to keep returning to the source. You write for a wide range of ages.
Do you write from a different place in writing for preschoolers than for young adolescents? In a picture book or board book, I'm always writing from the womb of the family, a place that--while it might be intruded upon by fears, for instance--is still, ultimately, safe and nurturing.
That's what my own early childhood was like, so it's easy for me to return to those feelings and to recreate them. When I write for older readers, I'm writing from a very different experience. My early adolescence, especially, was a time of deep alienation, mostly from my peers but in some ways from my family as well. And so I write my older stories out of that pain, that longing for connection. A story has to have a problem at its core. No struggle. Search review text. This past week, while a lot of people carried on the social media debate about that Duck Dynasty patriarch's newest homophobic remarks, I found myself finishing Am I Blue?
Yes, the two events are related. Printed in the mids but unfortunately unknown to me until just recently , the book is a collection of stories for, and about, gay, lesbian, and questioning teenagers. The editor, Marion Dane Bauer, points out in her introduction that "One out of ten teenagers attempts suicide," and "One out of three of those does so because of concern about being homosexual.
Like every anthology, this one includes some pieces that are stronger than others -- my favorite, strangely enough, was the one by Gregory Maguire Wicked , whose Oz books I dislike -- but its stories also face another challenge, that is, how to preach tolerance without coming across as, well, preachy. Of course, some contributors do better here than others, but really, the worst I can say about any of the stories is that they try rather too hard to drill into their young readers admirable lessons about valuing one's self and the differences of others.
It is also worth noting that several authors -- Maguire, Jacqueline Woodson, and William Sleater, for example -- deliberately write about queer young people who are not white, or who are not even from the United States. In a lot of ways, these particular stories are well ahead of a lot of lily white U. Ultimately, the question is, is a book like Am I Blue? The answer, I guess, emerged in this week's Duck Dynasty hullabaloo. As long as white, wealthy, heterosexual people with privileged access to the media continue to make statements that lead kids to believe their differences make them defective, and as long as similarly privileged people like Sarah Palin and an unfortunate number of people I am "friends" with on Facebook continue to defend their right to do so, then yes , there is still an emphatic need for this book, and many, many more like it.
Jenny Reading Envy. This book of short stories has been on the ALA banned and challenged book list since its publication in Twenty years later, the stories are still relevant, but perhaps not as inclusive or direct as they might be now.
I found them quite mild when considering the challenged status , often focusing on a curious or questioning youth coming into contact with someone who told them that whoever they are is okay, whether that is gay or not. Main message - you are not alone. Why would we ban a book that tells a young person they are not alone? We need more than this, we need more details and a wider span, but this would be a fine addition to any library with teens and pre-teens in my opinion.
I'm glad I got the chance to read it. I know many of the authors submitting stories to this collection have gone on to continue writing lgbt friendly books. It has sixteen short stories about different aspects of being gay or knowing gay people - some sad, some happy, some in-between - and being a teenager. In addition to being a good book in itself, it is also a fabulous resource for finding authors who have written other books about gay teenagers, or at least who are sensitive to the issues.
The book is also appropriate for adults, although the issues are going to be different. We read several stories from this book out loud during gay-straight alliance meetings in college, and they were a great way to start conversations, especially about people's own experiences. The book could possibly use an update sometime in the next several years, as the collective experiences of teenagers today at least in the bigger cities or more progressive areas is changing for the better.
Gay teenagers who have had fewer incidences of hate may feel less connected to this book than those who felt they were silenced more powerfully just ten or fifteen years ago. By Bruce Coville. I like Coville. In this story, a boy who thinks he might or might not be gay meets his fairy godfather, who will grant him three wishes.
Then I told them that if they didn't let me be a fairy godfather, I was going to bring charges of sexism against them. This story is about a lesbian girl who comes out to her grandmother and her mother, with VERY different results. Her grandmother is Jewish and visited Nazi Germany for a short time and never forgot the prejudice she faced there. This makes her more sympathetic to her granddaughter. Winnie has the misfortune of falling in love with Tommy, a gay man.
A teenaged girl discovers that her friend hates lesbians. This is a story told in third-person about two senior boys in high school who fall in love. The author also talks to the reader, and often assumes the reader is bored or has a short attention span. I did not enjoy this story very much.
Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus stop of faith A teenage girl discovers that she is lesbian when her stepsister brings a lesbian friend home from Europe.
It's the s. A year-old gay teenager starts stalking a guy who sunbathes nude in a hidden corner of the beach. I mean, he literally crouches in the bushes and watches this man without the man being aware of it.
I find this very creepy. Finally, he and the man meet each other. To my relief, the thirty-eight year old man does not have sex with the sixteen-year-old who has been stalking him and admiring him from the bushes. Instead, he tells the kid that it's okay to be gay. A very sweet, happy story. A teenage boy is slowly realizing that he's gay. Unfortunately, his beloved little sister sees him kissing another boy. This story has no plot. A teenage girl is a lesbian and she thinks about that while washing dishes.
Absolutely nothing happens in the story. A teenage boy comforts his father when his father's husband dies. This is a Fantasy story about an ancient lesbian civilization. Also, every woman eventually comes of age and conjures up her 'dark sister' from a mirror. A gay teacher who is 'too affectionate' with students is fired and put in prison.
Later, he dies of AIDS. This is also a story where nothing much happens. A teenage lesbian is a senior in high school. She's kind of depressed because she doesn't know what she wants to do with her life. She also gets propositioned by a girl who she doesn't really care for. Two gay men are soldiers in the Vietnam War. They are Vietnamese, not American. Two girls are kicked out of St. Mary's Academy of Young Women for being lesbians. This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Show full review. Overall Thoughts I've rated each story individually below. My average rating for the stories in the anthology was 4 stars. Overall, this collection was both great and important. Having a collection of stories like this proved that there's no single gay existence. Many gay people have similar experiences and understand each other deeply because of these similarities, but gay people aren't all the same people.
That may sound like a "duh! Some of the stories in this anthology had characters that fit in with stereotypes while other stories portrayed characters that defied stereotypes. That's true to real life. Some people are stereotypical gays and some people aren't though people are rarely as simple to describe as that and both are great ways to be gay. I liked that a lot of stories touched on straight people's gaydar versus gay people's gaydar. Straight people seem to often assume people are gay based off stereotypes while people who are gay guess based on similarities to their own narratives.
I've guessed people were gay because the subtle things they said and did were almost identical to my own actions as I was coming to terms with my sexuality and gender. There was also a good bit of diversity in these stories. So often authors get chastised for having characters that are "unrealistically" diverse, which is just silly. These stories featured many gay people of color from different cultures and backgrounds. I was a little bit uncomfortable with some of the age differences in the stories and it bothered me that that was a reoccurring theme in the gay men stories.
I do wish there had been some more bisexual acknowledgement throughout the stories. I also wished that at least one story could have been about a trans character. I guess I'll just have to look out for a trans anthology. Individual Reviews Am I Blue?
Melvin encompass a "stereotypical" gay guy but in a very realistic way. He didn't seem like a trope at all. I loved the second wish and everything that Melvin taught Vince in such a short time. It was especially important that Melvin told Vince he didn't have to decide. Sexuality is a confusing process. Melvin's story was a sad moment in an otherwise happy story but it was a realistic portrayal of the gay narrative.
Horrible things happen but we still fight like hell to be happy and proud. The only thing I didn't like was the homophobic bullies turning out to be gay.
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