The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. 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, because they care deeply about their students and about their subject. But the demands of teaching cause too many educators 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.
As a spiritually inspirational book for teachers, The Courage to Teach is one of the best. The premise is concise and unarguable: good teaching comes from the identity and the integrity of the teacher. Teachers are encouraged to turn their inquiring minds inward--developing a deeper understanding of what it means to fulfill the spiritual calling of teaching. Good teachers share one trait, says author Parker Palmer, they are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students, so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves. The connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods but in their hearts--the place where intellect and emotion and spirit and will converge in the human self. --Gail Hudson
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 09, 2007 Type: User Review |
A Book to Re-Read
Some books speak so deep to our soul that they help facilitate some type of life-change. We will always cherish these books for their ability to speak directly to us, no matter our life stage, for they carry in them principles that transcendent...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 20, 2007 Type: User Review |
Necessary
Palmer's writing evokes the inner being. He offers a lot of humility and personal experience which calls a person to respond from the inside. I was stirred in numerous ways by his writing and applaud this one like I applaud many of his books....
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 22, 2007 Type: User Review |
Great insights.
An excellent book on what it takes to really connect with students.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 14, 2007 Type: User Review |
Wasn't what I was looking for
I read this book with a group of teachers as part of our book club. I had high hopes that it would provide some great discussion. After the first few chapters nobody liked it. Out of the 8 of us that read it, not one of us actually enjoyed the...
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 2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 30, 2007 Type: User Review |
The Courage to Teach-Text book
The book was new and was in very good condition. I am happy about the purchase.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 16, 2006 Type: User Review |
Neither teacher nor student, but rather the subject is the key
The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer was a very intriguing book to read. It seems stupid to me now, but I had always assumed that what made a teacher good was a combination of his speaking skills and the amount of knowledge that he possessed and...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 02, 2006 Type: User Review |
Rambing Soul Searching
I first read Parker Palmer's spiritual guide The Courage to Teach as an undergraduate student, some number of years ago. At the time Palmer received much praise for his truthful ways of helping steer teachers through their inner emotions and was...
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2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 28, 2006 Type: User Review |
Using Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach
I was introduced to Palmer's book by a participant in a series of workshps I give on Teaching, Learning, and Technology. This participant said that my coverage of pedagogic and technologic issues would be augmented by dealing with the personal...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 27, 2006 Type: User Review |
Gets better as it goes....?
I'll preface this by saying that I'm a university teacher who cares deeply about teaching, which I guess must be why this book was recommended to me in the first place. The early chapters I found simply intolerable, heavily reliant on unexamined...
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2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 24, 2006 Type: User Review |
Takes Courage to Read It!
A moving, poetic, and inspiring work on the art, profession, and calling of teaching. "I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy" (p. 1). Palmer builds a theoretical framework of teaching based...
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5.00/5 |
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