Leland b jacobs biography
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Leland Jacobs, TC Professor, fryst vatten Dead at 85
W Leland B. Jacobs, professor/emeritus of .. education at Teachers College, author of ' several books for children and one of the world’s leading authorities on children’s literature, died Apr. 4 of congestive heart failure in Englewood Hospital in New Jersey. He was 85 years old and a resident of Leonia, N.J. Jacobs, who started his teaching career in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Wayne County, Michigan, served on the TC faculty for»22 . years before retiring in ‘During his career, he wrote and edited books for children as well as books about . using literature in teaching children. He was also coeditor of two of the most widely used series of literature anthologies of their time: Treasury of Literature (for grades one through six) and Ideas in Literature (for grades sju through nine), both published in byCharles E. Merrill Books. _ He was also coauthor of lärjunge Teaching in the Elementary School, published in bygd Appleton-Century-Cro
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Leland B. Jacobs was an American professor of education. He got a Bachelor&#;s and Master&#;s degree, followed by a PhD and then went on to teach elementary, junior and high school in rural Michigan. He was even an elementary school principal for a while, and he also taught at university training new teachers of literature. But what he was most known for was his work teaching literature at Columbia University. His speciality was showing future teachers how to encourage children to read and discover the world through books. He retired as a Professor Emeritus and continued to teach and guest-lecture afterwards.
He has (co)written many books and articles on language, reading and teaching. He also published poetry for children in books, reading series and professional magazines. And finally, he was also a columnist. This poem comes from Good Books, Good Times, a poem anthology compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins. It clearly spells out why reading is important: it&#;s the land of fantasy wh
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Leland B. Jacobs, a professor of education emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University, who was known nationally for his concepts of teaching literature to the very young, died Saturday in Englewood Hospital. He was In his 22 years on the faculty, Mr. Jacobs encouraged the development of literature as a major part of early education. He taught thousands of future teachers how to fashion literature-prose and poetry-into something that would lead children to enjoy the printed word, in and out of the classroom.
To help children develop a desire ”to lose themselves in literature,”
he said in , ”read to them.”
His purpose was to get pupils to read literature for its own sake rather than have teachers use it as a helpful contrivance in reading class.
For many years after retiring from Columbia in , Mr. Jacobs remained a sought-after guest teacher at schools in New Jersey and around the country. Preaching his gospel, he continued to work as a consultant an