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Spitwad sutras : classroom teaching as sublime vocation

Author: Robert Inchausti
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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From the Publisher: This work goes beyond the basics of classroom management to consider the path of both teacher and student toward authentic intellectual maturity and spiritual growth. It provides a framework for stripping away the external and personal pressures that bleed intellectual content out of classroom teaching so that teachers may, in fact, experience their vocation as "sublime." Written in the  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Inchausti, Robert, 1952-
Spitwad sutras.
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1993
(OCoLC)624443233
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Inchausti
ISBN: 0897893654 9780897893657 0897893794 9780897893794
OCLC Number: 28213579
Description: xii, 178 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
1: Vocation or provocation? --
2: Dialectics of discipline --
3: Breakthrough --
4: Lost art --
5: Classroom praxis from A to B --
6: Ceremonies sacred and profane --
7: Attempting the impossible --
8: Teaching social science: the lost civilization of Octopia --
9: Teaching English composition: the spirit and the semicolon --
10: Teaching social justice: the classroom as culture clash --
11: Teaching sex education --
12: Teaching literature: making the world safe for Franz Kafka --
13: Higher education --
14: Program notes --
Maxims, aphorisms, insights, and reflections on the art of classroom teaching / Brother Blake --
Selected readings --
Index.
Responsibility: Robert Inchausti.

Abstract:

From the Publisher: This work goes beyond the basics of classroom management to consider the path of both teacher and student toward authentic intellectual maturity and spiritual growth. It provides a framework for stripping away the external and personal pressures that bleed intellectual content out of classroom teaching so that teachers may, in fact, experience their vocation as "sublime." Written in the novelistic first-person narrative, it is a seasoned teacher's story of his initiation from graduate student at the University of Chicago to ninth-grade teacher in a Catholic high school where he manned the battle lines in provincial, petty, sometime even violent world of American secondary school. It is also the story of how a certain Brother Blake, a 67-year-old practitioner of the "pedagogy of the sublime," passed on his vision of classroom teaching as a sublime vocation. A major contribution to the field by the acclaimed author of The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People.

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