Title: Notes from the Jungle - Teaching Abroad in an International School
Author: John Price
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Year: 2010
Country: Brunei
274 pages
Although Price has some interesting anecdotes and ideas, he also has a lot of negative characterizations of his colleagues and educational systems. I can't speak to the issues of British international schools, but little that he describes resonates with my experience teaching in an American international school.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteWe used to be friends on Goodreads and I just found this blog. I miss your reviews and am glad to see that I can still read them. Anyway, I wanted to recommend a book to you: "Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day" by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven, which is about the financial lives of the poorest people in the world. The authors had hundreds of households in South Africa, India and Bangladesh keep "financial diaries" of every transaction they made for I think six months or a year or some similarly long period. I think the book would be right up your alley. The poor families actually did HAVE financial lives, in that they didn't live hand to mouth. They saved money, spent money, lent money, invested it, even had credit cards.
Thanks for the recommendation, and good to see you here. I'm also on BookLikes and will eventually catch up my more recent reviews there.
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