Changing Lives

Taylor Stoehr is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. For fifteen years he has headed the 'Changing Lives Through Literature' programme at Dorchester District Court in Massachusetts. He is author of six books on literary and cultural history, has translated two volumes of poetry and has edited twenty books by social critics of the sixties.

• Part 1 Getting Started; Chapter 1 Masks; Chapter 2 Who Are These People?; Chapter 3 A Typical Class; Part 2 In the Shadow of School; Chapter 4 Encouraging Failure; Chapter 5 Sentenced to School; Chapter 6 Let That Be a Lesson to You!; Part 3 Old Lessons; Chapter 7 Street Smarts; Chapter 8 The Moral of the Story; Part 4 Responding to Crisis; Chapter 9 Standing Up for Yourself; Chapter 10 Crisis and Self-Discovery; Part 5 Making a New Start; Chapter 11 Hitting Rock Bottom; Chapter 12 Neville; Part 6 What We Learned; Chapter 13 Graduation Day; epi Epilogue;

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