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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
ISBN: 9780787910587 | 0787910589
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: 12/1/1997
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A moving, profound, and exhilarating journey toward discovering the true spirit of teaching
"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad --and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only fromsomething one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to hardentheir hearts, because they love learners, learning, and theteaching life." - Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction]Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and abouttheir subject. But the d... MORE
"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad --and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only fromsomething one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to hardentheir hearts, because they love learners, learning, and theteaching life." - Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction]Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and abouttheir subject. But the d... MORE
| Gratitudes | xv | ||||
| Introduction: Teaching from Within | 1 | (8) | |||
| 9 | (26) | |||
| 35 | (26) | |||
| 61 | (28) | |||
| 89 | (26) | |||
| 115 | (26) | |||
| 141 | (22) | |||
| 163 | (22) | |||
| Notes | 185 | (6) | |||
| The Author | 191 | (2) | |||
| Index | 193 |
PARKER J. PALMER is a highly respected writer who works indepAndently on issues in education, community, spirituality, and social change; he offers lectures, workshops, and retreats across the country. In 1998, The Leadership Project, a survey of 11,000 educators, named Dr. Palmer as one of the thirty most influential senior leaders in higher education and one of ten key 'agAnda-setters' of the past decade: He has inspired a generation of teachers and reformers with evocative visions of community, knowing, and spiritual wholeness. Dr. Palmer is senior associate of the American Association for Higher Education and senior advisor to the Fetzer Institute, for whom he designed the Teacher Formation Program for K-12 teachers. Author of such widely-praised books as The Company of Strangers, The Active Life, and To Know As We Are Known, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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