Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse

My Life in Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Nasario Garcia has spent a lifetime dedicated to educating others in a variety of settings, including universities and prisons. A native of rural New Mexico and a beloved writer and folklorist, in Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse Garcia reflects on his experiences of being educated and of being an educator. He takes readers from his childhood in a one-room schoolhouse through graduate school and to universities and other settings in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Colorado, and New Mexico, all places in which he spent time teaching in various capacities. Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse is a love song to education and a reminder to everyone that it is possible to find a life, love, and purpose beyond the circumstances into which they were born.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-09-01
Mått140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt313 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagUniversity of New Mexico Press
ISBN9780826367006

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Beginning: Long AgoChapter 2. The Santa Barbara/Martíneztown NightmareChapter 3. A Hop, Skip, and a JumpChapter 4. Turning Over a New LeafChapter 5. Time, Perseverance, and EncouragementChapter 6. A New Dawn ArrivesChapter 7. Granada: Faraway but at HomeChapter 8. Pittsburgh: An Unforeseen PlaceChapter 9. A Dream Becomes a RealityChapter 10. Amid Del Monte CornfieldsChapter 11. Pleasant Memories LingerChapter 12. The Journey Is EndedChapter 13. Then and NowAppendix A. Foreign Countries VisitedAppendix B. Memorable Career MomentsAlso by Nasario GarcíaBook Awards and Honors

“Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse is one of the most heartfelt, fascinating, and charming memoirs I have read in a long time. It tells the full arc of García’s educational life, from a humble, one-room adobe schoolhouse in a tiny village on the Río Puerco to a distinguished career as a professor, poet, writer, and translator. . . . It is the New Mexico equivalent of The Education of Henry Adams. I highly recommend Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse.”—Douglas Preston, author of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story