The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life Hardcover - 2017
by Parker J. Palmer
This edition includes a new Foreword discussing the changes that have happened in teaching over the 20 years since the book was originally published. It also includes a reader's guide for individual study or team-based professional development.
From the rear cover
"A profoundly moving, utterly passionate, and inspired articulation of the call to, and the pain and joy of, teaching. It is must reading for any and every teacher, at any level."
--Jon Kabat-Zinn, author, Wherever You Go, There You Are, and coauthor, Everyday Blessings
For forty years, Parker J. Palmer has worked on behalf of teachers and others who choose vocations for reasons of the heart, but may lose heart because of the troubled, sometimes toxic, systems in which they work. Hundreds of thousands of readers have benefitted from The Courage to Teach, which takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with themselves, their students, and their colleagues, and toward reclaiming vocational passion.
The Courage to Teach builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique, but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms, but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, deeply connected with their students and their subject. These connections are held in the teacher's heart--the place where intellect, emotion, and spirit converge in the human self. Good teachers weave a life-giving web between themselves, their subjects, and their students, helping their students learn how to weave a web for themselves.
From the jacket flap
"A profoundly moving, utterly passionate, and inspired articulation of the call to, and the pain and joy of, teaching. It is must reading for any and every teacher, at any level."
--Jon Kabat-Zinn, author, Wherever You Go, There You Are, and coauthor, Everyday Blessings
For forty years, Parker J. Palmer has worked on behalf of teachers and others who choose vocations for reasons of the heart, but may lose heart because of the troubled, sometimes toxic, systems in which they work. Hundreds of thousands of readers have benefitted from The Courage to Teach, which takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with themselves, their students, and their colleagues, and toward reclaiming vocational passion.
The Courage to Teach builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique, but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms, but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, deeply connected with their students and their subject. These connections are held in the teacher's heart--the place where intellect, emotion, and spirit converge in the human self. Good teachers weave a life-giving web between themselves, their subjects, and their students, helping their students learn how to weave a web for themselves.
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- Title The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
- Author Parker J. Palmer
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Hardback
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jossey-Bass
- Date 2017-09-05
- ISBN 9781119413042 / 1119413044
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 14.73 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Teaching, Teachers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017030406
- Dewey Decimal Code 371.102
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