Palmer The Courage to Teach

Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-46927-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whosebad days bring the suffering that comes only from something oneloves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts,because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life."
- Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction]
Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, becausethey care deeply about their students and about their subject. Butthe demands of teaching cause too many educators to lose heart. Isit possible to take heart in teaching once more so that we cancontinue to do what good teachers always do -- give heart to ourstudents?
In The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer takes teachers onan inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and theirstudents -- and recovering their passion for one of the mostdifficult and important of human endeavors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmer, Parker

Palmer, Parker J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Teaching From Within.
The Heart of a Teacher: Identity and Integrity in Teaching.
A Culture of Fear: Education and the Disconnected Life.
The Hidden Wholeness: Paradox in Teaching and Learning.
Knowing in Community: Joined by the Grace of Great Things.
Teaching in Community: A Subject-Centered Education.
Learning in Community: The Conversation of Colleagues.
Divided No More: Teaching from a Heart of Hope.

Über Autor(innen)

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.