David J. Jackson

Classrooms and Barrooms (eBook, PDF)

An American in Poland

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Classrooms and Barrooms, David J. Jackson recounts his experiences during a semester-long Fulbright Fellowship in Poland where he taught classes at the university level and learned more about Poland and himself than he expected. From the trepidation associated with learning he was assigned to teach in a city considered by most to be an unpleasant wasteland to meeting American and Polish colleagues for the first time, Jackson's worries vanished as he quickly learned to accept the challenges Poland presented. Halfway through his time in Poland he stumbled into a bar populated with an ever-changing cast of eccentric locals who welcomed him into their world. Each visit led him to another revelation about Polish history and culture. Alternating among hilarious, somber, and uplifting, Jackson's experiences in the classrooms and barrooms of Poland aim both to inform and entertain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761889946
• Artikelnr.: 74391130

Autorenporträt

David J. Jackson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. From October 2007 to February 2008, he was a Fulbright Fellow in the Department of American Studies and Mass Media at the University of Lódz in Poland. Jackson is also the author of Entertainment and Politics: The Influence of Pop Culture on Young Adult Political Socialization and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Kresowa
Chapter 2. Choosing Lódz, Heading for Wroclaw
Chapter 3. Return to Kresowa
Chapter 4. (Dis)Orientation
Chapter 5. Friendly Fulbrighters
Chapter 6. To Work in Lódz
Chapter 7. Meanwhile, Back at Kresowa
Chapter 8. Poland for the First Time
Chapter 9. Names and Pictures
Chapter 10. Polka, Polka, Polka
Chapter 11. A Great Day of Teaching
Chapter 12. Warsaw, London and Oxfordshire
Chapter 13. Another Bar
Chapter 14. A Day on Piotrkowska Street
Chapter 15. Wigilia
Chapter 16. My Grandfather's People
Chapter 17. Comments
Chapter 18. Fitting In
Chapter 19. Christmas and Boxing Day
Chapter 20. Poland, Slovenia and Austria
Chapter 21. Fighting Poland
Chapter 22. Three Good Classes
Chapter 23. Zbyskuuuu.
Chapter 24. Breaking Glass
Chapter 25 Chapter 25. Firsts and Lasts