In this book Sonja Krause Goodwin recounts her experience joining the Peace Corps in 1964 and describes the training she underwent to teach in Nigeria at Columbia Teachers College in New York City. Goodwin tells readers about her service as a University teacher in physics while also serving as head of the Physics Department at Lagos University in Nigeria. She also describes her vacation travels during that time, mostly in Nigeria- including an attempt to climb Mt. Cameroon. She writes about her interactions with her students, her fellow University teachers and other University employees, her fellow Peace Corps volunteers and other expatriates, and Nigerians whom she met under during her travels. Goodwin also delves into the politically motivated "university crisis" that led to the exodus from the university and Nigeria of almost all the expatriate teaching staff of the university including the Peace Corps volunteers. She also discusses some of her work for the West African Examinations Council and the Aptitude Testing Unit in Lagos while waiting to be sent to another assignment for her second year in the Peace Corps.
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By Sonja Krause Goodwin
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue: Joining the Peace Corps
Peace Corps Training, June 18-August 19, 1964
Chapter 1: First Impressions, September 4-15, 1964
Chapter 2: Getting Started, September 15-October 4, 1964
Chapter 3: Beginning to Teach, October 5-November 1, 1964c
Chapter 4: New Abode and New Steward, November 2-25, 1964
Chapter 5: Thanksgiving to Semester End, November 26-December 19, 1964
Chapter 6 : Christmas Vacation, December 20-30, 1964
Chapter 7: Start of the New Year, December 31, 1964-January 19, 1965
Chapter 8: My Own Honda, January 20-February 11, 1965
Chapter 9: The Two Weeks Before the Crisis, February 12-28, 1965
Chapter 10: Beginning of the University Crisis, March 1-19, 1965
Chapter 11: Continuation of the Crisis, March 20-April 6, 1965
Appendix 11A: Statement Made on Behalf of the Provisional Council
Appendix 11B: Replay to Statement
Appendix 11C: Other Documents on the University Crisis
Chapter 12: A Trip to Cameroon, April 7-21, 1965
Chapter 13: Marking Time, April 22-May 16, 1965
Chapter 14: Some Extra Jobs, May 17-June 6, 1965
Appendix 14A: University of Lagos, Resolution
Appendix 14B: University of Lagos, Letter to the Senate
Chapter 15: Opening and Closing the University, June 7-28, 1965
Chapter 16: Getting Ready for Transfer, June 29-August 7, 1965
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