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It was late in the evening and I had just come home after a day of teaching, filled with the combination of exhaustion, tension, and sometimes pure joy that accompanies working in schools. There was something waiting for me, a letter from Teachers College, Columbia University. I opened it with much trepidation. But the news was good.
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Apple, M.W. (2015). Education and Discomfort. In: Porfilio, B.J., Ford, D.R. (eds) Leaders in Critical Pedagogy. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-166-3_14
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