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Spelling Hope

A Poet-Teacher’s Testimony

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We Saved the Best for You

Part of the book series: Imagination and Praxis ((IPCC,volume 1))

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I have been in school since I was four years old. Now, at the age of fifty-seven, I look back on a long life spent in classrooms as a learner, a school teacher, and a professor of education, and I am filled with amazement that I have grown old! Some days I think I am still in elementary school. Other days, I live vividly the first chapter of my teaching life when I taught forty-eight learners in grade seven.

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  1. Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada

    Carl Leggo

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  1. The University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

    Tricia M. Kress

  2. Georgia Southern University, USA

    Robert Lake

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Leggo, C. (2013). Spelling Hope. In: Kress, T.M., Lake, R. (eds) We Saved the Best for You. Imagination and Praxis, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-122-1_6

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