Hughes Mearns

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Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: Ever since the ?first breakfast,? groups of passengers had been trooping down the gang-plank, hurrying with guide-book and satchel to ?do? Naples, Vesuvius, Pompeii, etc., before the steamer should sail again in the evening. An angular chap in proper steamer négligé lounged contentedly on the starboard rail and watched them go. By eight o?clock he seemed to have the starboard rail to himself. At that hour he was leaning heavily forward, presumably watching the ant-like stevedores loading and unloading the steamer, but he was quite aware of another lone passenger, slowly moving towards him. He had seen her come on at Genoa?anyone would have noticed the clean-cut, tailor-made figure?and on the journey from Genoa to Naples he had noted her once or twice striding the deck alone; but he did not know even so much as her name. He did not know her, but, as she came up to him and lingered at the starboard rail, he knew instinctively that he would borrow money from her.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 18
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783989731004
• Artikelnr.: 69793778

Autorenporträt

Hughes Mearns, whose real name was William Hughes Mearns and who lived from 1875 to 1965, was an American teacher and author. Mearns taught at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1905 to 1920. He had degrees from both Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. People now know Mearns as the author of "Antigonish" (also called "The Little Man Who Wasn't There"). But his ideas about getting kids, especially those ages 3 to 8, to use their natural imagination were new at the time. It has been stated about him that, "He typed notes of their conversations; he learned how to make them forget there was an adult around; never asked them questions and never showed surprise no matter what they did or said." Creative Youth (1925) and Creative Power (1929) were two important books that Mearns wrote. Gabriel Gudding, an essayist, says that those books "lit a fuse" under the teaching of creative writing and had an impact on a whole group of scholars. He was also in charge of the Lincoln School Teachers College at Columbia University for a while, beginning in 1920. He also supported the work of John Dewey in modern education.