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Teaching from the Heart

Seasons of Renewal in a Teacher's Life with Parker J. Palmer

Teaching from the Heart( )
Author: Palmer, Parker J.
The Fetzer Institute,
ISBN:978-0-7879-4644-9
Publication Date:Dec 1998
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Imprint:Jossey-Bass
Book Format:Video
List Price:USD $79.95
Book Description:

This inspiring documentary follows one hundred K-12 teachers in four cities around the United States as they take part in the two-year Courage to Teach program. Gain valuable insight as you follow them through a sequence of seasonal retreats where they explore--in solitude and community--their gifts, their needs, their needs, their pains and joys, and move closer to the intersection of soul and role in their work as teachers. They, and we, find courage as they return to their...
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Book Details
Pages:199
Detailed Subjects: Education / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.7 x 7.898 x 1.147 Inches
Book Weight:0.572 Pounds
Author Biography
Palmer, Parker J. (Author)


Parker J. Palmer was born in 1939 in Chicago. He attended Carleton College where he studied Philosophy and Sociology and graduated in 1961. He then went on to complete his Phd in Sociology at UC Berkeley. After graduation, he took a teaching position at Georgetown University and became involved with the Religious Society of Friends at Pendle Hill. He is the founder and Senior Partner of the Center for Courage and Renewal which operates the "Courage to Teach" program for K-12 educators across the country.

He has published over one hundred essays and eight books. He has also been recognized with thirteen honorary degrees, two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association, and grants from the Danforth Foundation and the Lilly Endowment. Parker Palmer's title's include: The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life, To Know As We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey, and On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old.

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