Teaching By Heart: The Foxfire Interviews

This book contains fourteen interviews with some of the most prominent progressive educational thinkers ever interviewed for the now out-of-publication The Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers. Created through the curiousities and interests of the network of Foxfire-trained teachers across the country, these interviews were conducted from a common set of questions also constructed through teacher network input. Interviews with Eleanor Duckworth, Yetta Goodman, Grant Wiggins, Robert Coles, Donald Graves, Vivian G. Paley, Maxine Greene, Nel Noddings, Parker J. Palmer, Jack Shelton, Bobby Ann Starnes, Alfie Kohn, Ira Shor, and Ted Sizer.