Lou LaBrant A Woman's Life, a Teacher's Life

Contents: Introduction; Growing Toward a Life of Language -- a Midwestern Childhood at the Turn-of-the-Century; Travelling Gradually Over Slow Roads -- Baker University and Struggling to Commit to Teaching; The Emerging English Education Advocate -- From Dissertation Research to University Scholar; Experimentalism in Practice -- The University School of Ohio State and the Guinea Pigs; Turning Toward Teacher Education and Language Advocacy -- New York University and Visiting Professorships; Working Through Retirement -- Moving to African-American Education and Leading NCTE; Heading South to New Orleans -- the Prefreshman Program and Dillard University; Travelling Abroad, Returning to Kansas -- Outliving All That She Had Lived For; The Paradoxes of Lou LaBrant -- Choreographer of the Child's Mind; Index.