Book description
"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad --and whose
bad days bring the suffering that comes only fromsomething one loves. It
is for teachers who refuse to hardentheir hearts, because they love
learners, learning, and theteaching life."
- 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.
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.
