Volunteers of America : (Record no. 27142)
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| control field | BRILL9789460917370 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789460917370 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic book) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9789460917363 |
| Qualifying information | (print) |
| 024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-94-6091-737-0 |
| Source of number or code | DOI |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)810931915 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | NL-LeKB |
| Transcribing agency | NL-LeKB |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | LA2317.C37 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | JN |
| Source | bicssc |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | EDU |
| Subject category code subdivision | 000000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 371.10092 |
| Edition information | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Carlson, Dennis L., |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Volunteers of America : |
| Remainder of title | a The Journey of a Peace Corps Teacher / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Dennis L. Carlson. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Leiden; |
| -- | Boston : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Brill | Sense, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2012. |
| 300 ## - online resource | |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 79 |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001 |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preliminary Material -- The Gathering Storm -- A Way Out of Here -- The Making of a Volunteer -- Life Among the Ruins -- The Rituals of Everyday Life -- The Making of a Teacher -- The Village and the City -- Stranger in the Village -- The Tripoli Apartment -- Europe on USD5 a Day -- After the Revolution -- Coming Home. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 history of the village in terms of wave after wave off European colonizers—from the time of the Romans, to the Italian fascist colonizers, to the liberation of the village by the British chasing Rommel’s troops across the desert, to its decline, renaming, and reappropriation as an Arab village. The author brings all this up to the late 1960s by describing the role of U. S. foreign policy in the “development” of Libya in league with global oil, and with the support of the largest air base outside the continental U. S. near Tripoli. This is, finally a coming of age story—about a young man who was desperately looking for something to believe in and live for, and more pragmatically looking for a way out of the draft and Vietnam, and out of an America that seemed to be slipping into collective madness. It is a story (like all coming of age stories) about setting off on a great youthful journey of self-discovery, and a rekindling of the human spirit. Audiences for this book include: college students (undergraduate and graduate) in education, cultural studies, and Arabic studies; former Peace Corps volunteers and those interested in the Peace Corps and its history; readers interested in recent developments in Libya looking for some historical perspective on how Gaddafi came to power and why the revolution turned anti-American; and all those interested in a first-hand account of what America was like at the end of a decade ushered in with Kennedy idealism and the Peace Corps. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Teachers |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| General subdivision | Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Volunteers |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| General subdivision | Biography. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Title | Volunteers of America: The Journey of a Peace Corps Teacher, |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Leiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2012 |
| Record control number | 9789460917363 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 79. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | DOI: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-737-0">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-737-0</a> |
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