Foreword to the Russian edition of Philip W. Jackson’s “Life in Classrooms”

Abstract

In 2016, Voprosy obrazovaniya Library was enriched with another book, the Russian edition of Philip W. Jackson’s classic book on school education, which was first published in 1968 and has become a bestseller for Western teachers and researchers. We introduce the reader to the foreword to this book written by professor Isak Froumin, who was lucky to know the author personally and who is discussing the relevance Jackson’s lessons maintain even nowadays.