The book is about a high school teacher's first year of teaching. Teacher education classes are heavy on psychology, theory and outcomes. This book is about none of that. This is a trench level walk-through, daily or weekly, of that first year, discussing issues a new teacher faces, or dodges. You will be exposed to sometimes minute by minute problems and opportunities a teacher deals with in class, and sometimes in the hallways. There is success, failure, fights, fear, and fun. You will f...

On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela’s famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the ‘ new ’ South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or education, and they all seek to explore the sea change which totally reshaped South African ident...

In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promote democracy and women’s rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africa’s most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation. Amy’s parents not only established a humanitarian foundation to serve the black township where she was killed, but supported am...