Walden: Volatile Truths (Twayne's Masterwork Studies) [Paperback]

Martin Bickman (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

YA-- Thoreau said, ``Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.'' This advice applies to this title as well. Bickman offers the standard chronology of Thoreau's life and works and a useful annotated bibliography of books and essays by and about him. In between, he weighs the importance of Walden then and now and provides insight into its structure, vision, and philosophy. His close reading of the language or root meanings in it is by far the best chapter in assisting readers to make meaning of the text.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 139 pages
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers (April 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805780122
• ISBN-13: 978-0805780123
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,563,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Marty Bickman's progressive, activist approach to education was forged in the reform movements of the 1960s and 70s. After working in a residential high school for gifted disadvantaged students in Kentucky, he went on to receive his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Since coming to CU, he has continued to focus on educational reform, both in his own classroom and working with our graduate student teachers. He has received the Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Award and a Creating Community Award; in 1984 he delivered The Best Should Teach lecture. He has been active as a President's Teaching Scholar since 1988. Much of his writing and research has been concerned with pedagogy and with making literature more accessible for students and general readers. His most recent book, Minding American Education: Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning [Teachers College Press, 1983] won the Outstanding Book Award from the American Research Association. After writing this book, he decided to put its situated learning and democratic ideas into practice beyond his own classroom by becoming Director of Service Learning at CU Boulder.