The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life [Kindle Edition] Author: Parker J. Palmer | Language: English | ISBN:
B00D0I0FZY | Format: PDF, EPUB
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- 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 demands of teaching cause too manyeducators to lose heart. Is it possible to take heart in teaching once more so that we can continue to do what good teachers always do -- give heart to our students?
In The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students -- and recovering their passion for one of the most difficult and important of human endeavors. Books with free ebook downloads available The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life Free PDF
- File Size: 564 KB
- Print Length: 273 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0787996866
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (May 18, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D0I0FZY
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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The front cover of `The Courage to Teach,' Parker J. Palmer's spiritual exploration of teaching, is a painting of a sheer cliff overlooking an expansive lake. Birds mount up from the shores, and ribbony waterfalls pour down the rock face. Overhead, though out of the picture, the sun breaks through the clouds, casting a dusky but revelatory glow over the whole scene. It would be an appropriate metaphor for the book except for one problem - which metaphor? The joy of sunshine after the rain? The freedom of a bird in flight? The lyrical power of a waterfall?
So it is with A Courage to Teach. The picture that emerges is a richly toned portrait of `the inner landscape of a teacher's life' (as the cover advertises), but the reader is never quite sure where to focus. Perhaps this is Palmer's intention. It is a mystical book, reminiscent of Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull or some other philosophical meandering, from which one can never quite glean a specific thesis. The fact that each chapter starts with a poetry excerpt is revealing, as is one reviewer's quote: `This book is good news ... for all of us who are committed to the healing of our world.' Whatever that means, it sure sounds nice - can I join? Snide remarks aside, the book is inspiring at its best and well-meaning but muddled at its worst.
Just to add a few comments on various sections of the book...
Palmer makes many good points, but much of the time, he wanders from truism to proverb and back again, sounding somewhat like a New Age self-help book. `You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.' `The voice of the inward teacher reminds me of my truth as I negotiate the force field of my life.' Huh?
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