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by: George Stranahan

ISBN: 9781936905997 | 193690599X

The sixty essays and vignettes are about the intersection of learning and school as seen and understood by long-time teacher and photographer George Stranahan. The writings are solidly progressive, and well stocked with facts and references to support that position. The photographs are of Stranahan’s students taken as part of class projects in self-understanding or as their eighth-grade graduation portraits. While the photos were taken in the studio, the children, “the innocents,” present themselves with a forthright intimacy.

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MOREidth:100%" />This collection of essays and photographs by a long-time progressive educator and photographer explores the art of teaching, the minds of children, and how the educational infrastructure stifles the growth of both. The portraits of schoolchildren taken over six decades invite pause and reflection what are they asking for? Innocents examines educational practices, debates, and theory, and advocates learning with children rather than teaching to them. This is a passionate book about the intersection of education and the love of learning.

George S. Stranahan is a lifelong educator. In 56 years of teaching he has left his mark in army, university, primary, high, and charter schools.  Stranahan is a founder of Michigan Montessori Internationale, the Aspen Community School, the Early Childhood Center, the Carbondale Community School, and the Roaring Fork Teacher Education Project in partnership with the Graduate School of Education at Colorado University Boulder. Stranahan is also a lifelong student. He received his B.S in Physics from the California Institute of Technology, his M.S. and Ph.D in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a Postdoctoral fellowship from Purdue University, and learned the art of ranching from working the irrigation and fields on his Colorado ranch.