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Spitwad Sutras Classroom Teaching as Sublime Vocation
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Robert Inchausti
Book Code: G379
ISBN: 0-89789-379-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-379-4
198 pages
Bergin & Garvey Paperback
Publication: 10/30/1993
List Price: $31.95 (UK Sterling Price: £18.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
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  • Endorsement From Catharine Lucas
    Coordinator, Composition Studies
    San Francisco State University:     Not since 36 Children and The Way it Spoze to Be in the 60's have I been so completely transported into the consciousness of a beginning high school teacher confronting those awesome choices: survival by authoritarian repression, by capitulation, or by transcendence into a truer self, the discovery of an inner authority based on an ancient knowing that frees one from having to prove anything and allows one full access to the loving curiosity, the simple seeing that makes us God's eyes and hands. From this place nothing is terrifying, everything teaches. Sublime is a fine word for it.
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Vocation or Provocation?
  • The Dialectics of Discipline
  • Breakthrough
  • The Lost Art
  • Classroom Praxis from A to B
  • Ceremonies Sacred and Profane
  • Attempting the Impossible
  • Teaching Social Science
  • Teaching English Composition
  • Teaching Social Justice
  • Teaching Sex Education
  • Teaching Literature
  • Higher Education
  • Program Notes
  • Maxims, Aphorisms, Insights and Reflections
  • Selected Reading
  • Index
LC Card Number: 93-25017
LCC Class: LB1775
Dewey Class: 371.1
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