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Kirsten’s book about the radical school critics of the 1960s is now available on Amazon!
Click Here to Read the Full Story >> Kirsten wins the 2008 John B. Muir Editor Award from the National Association for College Admission Counseling!Just announced, Kirsten’s article, “Hyperventilating: The Concerted Cultivation of the Teenager” (see article link in “Excerpts From Her Writings”) has been awarded the 2008 John B. Muir Award from the National Association for College Admission Counseling. The essay was cited for its timely and significant treatment of the current “cutthroat” college admissions environment and “exemplifying the excellent writing it strives to publish.” Chosen by the editors, the John B. Muir Award is for the article that has made the most significant contribution to the Journal during the past year. Kirsten will receive this award in Seattle, WA on September 29, 2008.
Click Here to Read the Full Story >> New article posted at Joyful Jubliant LearningRead Kirsten's new article What I’ve Learned From the Many (!) Men In My Life
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Some of the most radical and free-thinking educational critics of the 20th century said that we go to school to “be instructed on our own inferiority.” Schools As Colonizers examines the problems of institutionalized education from the vantage of the 1960s and 70s most eloquent voices: John Holt, Ivan Illich, Paul Goodman, Jonathan Kozol, Herb Kohl and George Dennison.