The Courage to Teach - 3rd Edition by Parker J Palmer (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Wisdom that's been inspiring, motivating, and guiding teachers for two decades</b> <p><i>The Courage to Teach</i> speaks to the joys and pains that teachers of every sort know well. Over the last 20 years, the book has helped countless educators reignite their passion, redirect their practice, and deal with the many pressures that accompany their vital work. <p>Enriched by a new Foreword from Diana Chapman Walsh, the book builds on a simple premise: good teaching can never be reduced to technique. Good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher, that core of self where intellect, emotion, and spirit converge--enabling 'live encounters' between teachers, students, and subjects that are the key to deep and lasting learning. Good teachers love learners, learning, and the teaching life in a way that builds trust with students and colleagues, animates their daily practice, and keeps them coming back tomorrow. <ul> <li>Reclaim your own vision and purpose against the threat of burn-out</li> <li>Understand why good teaching cannot be reduced to technique alone</li> <li>Explore and practice the relational traits that good teachers have in common</li> <li>Learn how to forge learning connections with your students and "teach across the gap"</li> </ul> <p>Whether used for personal study, book club exploration, or professional development, <i>The</i> <i>Courage to Teach</i> is rich with time-honored wisdom, and contemporary clarity about the ancient arts of teaching and learning.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>"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."<br> --<b>Jon Kabat-Zinn, </b> author, <i>Wherever You Go, There You</i> <i>Are, </i> and coauthor, <i>Everyday Blessings</i> <p>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 <i>The Courage to Teach</i>, which takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with themselves, their students, and their colleagues, and toward reclaiming vocational passion. <p><i>The Courage to Teach</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>PARKER J. PALMER</b> is a highlyrespected writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist. He is founder and Senior Partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal, which offers long-term retreat programs for people in the serving professions, including teachers, administrators, physicians, philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, and clergy. Author of nine books, including <i>Let Your Life Speak, A Hidden Wholeness, Healing the Heart of Democracy</i>, and <i>The Heart of Higher Education</i>, Palmer has been recognized with thirteen honorary doctorates and a number of national awards. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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