Exploring the Moral Heart of Teaching: Toward a Teacher's Creed,9780807740934

Exploring the Moral Heart of Teaching: Toward a Teacher's Creed

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ISBN13: 9780807740934
ISBN10: 0807740934
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Teachers College Pr
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Summary

In this new work, David Hansen extends and deepens a line of inquiry he set forth in his popular book, The Call to Teach. Hansen examines why the most important factor in the practice of teaching is the person who occupies the role of teacher. Drawing on classroom research, teachers' testimony, and a rich, historical tradition of philosophical reflection, Hansen crafts an original, highly accessible account that takes us to the moral heart of teaching. His is a straightforward, compelling vision of why teaching is essential in human life and why its rewards are special and distinctive. In an era of considerable political attack on teachers and teaching, this book vindicates the importance and vitality of what teachers do.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Overview: Teaching as a Moral and Intellectual Practice
1(19)
Conceptions of Teaching Matter
2(5)
Deriving the Terms of Teaching from the Practice
7(9)
Organization of the Book
16(4)
Person, Conduct, and Moral Sensibility in Teaching
20(21)
The Person in the Role of Teacher
21(7)
Conduct in Teaching
28(4)
Moral Sensibility and Teaching
32(7)
Conclusion: Entering a World of Meaningful Activity
39(2)
An Image of a Growing Person That Can Guide a Teacher's Work
41(20)
An Image of a Growing Person
43(14)
Conclusion: The Place of Images of Learning and Growth in Teaching
57(4)
Teaching Indirectly and the Dynamics of an Educative Environment
61(19)
A ``Well-Regulated Freedom''
63(5)
Dewey's Reconstruction of Rousseau's Method
68(8)
Conclusion: A Conception of Indirect Teaching
76(4)
Shaping an Environment for Teaching and Learning
80(34)
Background to Focused Discussion
82(4)
Inside the Classroom
86(21)
Conclusion: The Promise in Teaching Indirectly
107(2)
Postscript: Questioning Participation
109(5)
Teaching and the Sense of Tradition
114(23)
A Living Tradition
116(4)
The Influence of Tradition
120(3)
Moral Contours of the Sense of Tradition
123(3)
The Dynamics of Tradition in Teaching: Questions and Replies
126(11)
Cultivating a Sense of Tradition in Teaching
137(20)
The Conversation with Tradition
138(6)
Engaging the Voice of Tradition
144(5)
Reading the Pedagogical Past and Present
149(5)
Conclusion: The Sense of Tradition as a Source of Guidance
154(3)
The Place of Ideals in Teaching
157(36)
The Promise and Perils of Ideals
158(4)
Inhabitable Ideals in Teaching
162(5)
Tenacious Humility: An Ideal of Personhood
167(8)
Enacting Tenacious Humility
175(3)
Harmonizing the Inner and the Outer
178(9)
Conclusion: Ideals and the Practice of Teaching
187(6)
Notes 193(8)
References 201(12)
Author Index 213(4)
Subject Index 217(4)
About the Author 221

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