| 书目名称 | Volunteers of America | | 编辑 | Dennis L. Carlson | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope | | 丛书名称 | Transgressions | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book chronicles the live of a Peace Corps volunteer in Libya in the late 1960s, including the first American account of living through the revolution that brought Gaddafi to power. The author moves from campus protests at the University of Washington in the spring of 1968, to Peace Corps training in Utah and the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, to living and teaching in an isolated village in Libya, to a European summer vacation, to the revolution that led to charges that Peace Corps volunteers were CIA agents, to returning to the U.S. in October, 1969, to witness the anti-war moratorium on the Capital Mall in Washington, D.C. The heart of the story is the author’s own evolving journey as a teacher, during which time he began to question both the official curriculum of English instruction and the broader purposes of teaching for liberation. This is also a story about the author’s education and re-education in Libya as he struggles to learn the rules of everyday life (including the rules of gender and sexuality) as a stranger in the village, and as he begins to see and appreciate the world through somewhat different eyes. Part of his education involved a reconstruction of the histo | | 出版日期 | Book 2012 | | 关键词 | arabic studies; cultural studies; education; Libya | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-737-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-6091-737-0Series ISSN 2214-9732 Series E-ISSN 2214-9740 | | issn_series | 2214-9732 | | copyright | SensePublishers 2012 |
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