Robert Coles
Basics
On the Web: Articles
A Way of Seeing: The Work of Robert Coles, Scott London. Bibliographic essay on R. Coles
Stories and Living a Life, Robert Coles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Coles, Robert. "Children & the bomb," NY Times Magazine (12/8/85).
White, George Abbott. "The religion of the 'privileged ones' (interview w/Robert Coles)," Cross Currents 31,1 (spr 81):1-14.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bruce, A. Ronda. Intellect and
Spirit: The Life and Work of Robert Coles (New
York: Continuum, 1989)
Coles, Robert, Brian J. Mahan. Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation
and
the Ethics of Ambition
__________ (with Jon Erickson). A Spectacle Unto the World: The Catholic
Worker Movement
__________. Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
__________, Thomas Merton.
Contemplation in a World of Action (Gethsemani Studies
in Psychological and Religious Anthropology)
__________, Judith Berck. No Place to Be : Voices of Homeless Children
__________, Rothenberg, Daniel. With These Hands: The Hidden World
of Migrant
Farmworkers Today
__________. Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures
in
Humanities)
__________. Lives of Moral Leadership (2000)
__________. The Youngest Parents: Teenage Pregnancy As It Shapes Lives
(1997)
__________. The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1993).
__________. The Spiritual Life of Children (Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company,
1990).
__________. The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination
(Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989).
__________. Harvard Diary: Reflections of the Sacred and the Secular
(New York:
Crossroad, 1988).
__________. The Moral Life of Children (Boston: Atlantic Monthly
Press, 1986).
__________. The Political Life of Children (Boston: Atlantic Monthly
Press,
1986).
__________. Eskimos, Indians, Chicanos, vol. 4 of Children of Crisis
(Boston:
Little, Brown, 1977)
__________. The Privileged Ones, vol. 5 of Children of Crisis
(Boston: Little,
Brown, 1977)
__________. Farewell to the South (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972)
__________. The South Goes North, vol. 3 of Children of Crisis
(Boston: Little,
Brown, 1971)
__________. Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, vol. 2 of Children
of Crisis
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1971)
__________. Erik H. Erikson: The Growth of His Work (Boston: Little,
Brown,
1970).
__________. A Study in Courage and Fear, vol. 1 of Children in Crisis
(Boston:
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1967)
Jay Woodruff and Sarah Carew, editors. Conversations with Robert Coles
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
In the Library: Fiction
Coles, Robert. Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
Robert Coles: Teacher, dir. Barak Goodman, First Run Features, 1991. Documentary of Coles' Harvard University course, "The Literature of Social Reflection"
Robert Coles: An Intimate Biographical Interview, dir. Bruce Baird-Middleton, The Film study Center at Harvard University, 1987. Overview of Dr. Coles's work and thought.