Senegal sojourn [[electronic resource] ] : selections from one teacher's journal / / M. Kathleen Madigan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780859803321
• Autore: Madigan M. Kathleen <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-47911-3; 9786612479113; 0-7391-3464-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.9663; 966.305/2
• Soggetti: Languages, Modern - Senegal; Senegal Description and travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Baobab Tree; Brief Timeline: Some Dates from Senegal's History; CHAPTER ONE. September; CHAPTER TWO. October; CHAPTER THREE. November; CHAPTER FOUR. December; CHAPTER FIVE. January; CHAPTER SIX. February; CHAPTER SEVEN. March; CHAPTER EIGHT. April; CHAPTER NINE. May; CHAPTER TEN. June; CHAPTER ELEVEN. July; CHAPTER TWELVE. August; CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Encore: August (Five Years Later); Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Senegal Sojourn: Selections from One Teacher's Journal is a personal account of everyday interaction while collaborating for a year with foreign language teachers and writers of fiction in Dakar. A unique and passionate contribution to interdisciplinary conversations, the journal is the record of one teacher's encounters with African education, politics, languages, etc. Traditions and tensions, practices and yearnings, struggles and feats are described, along with literature, religion, film, music, and art which transcend timeframes.