Touching Eternity: The Enduring Outcomes of Teaching,9780807741115

Touching Eternity: The Enduring Outcomes of Teaching

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ISBN13: 9780807741115
ISBN10: 0807741116
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Teachers College Pr
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Summary

This case study of one high school art teacher and his former students explores how teachers can make a long-term impact on the lives of their students.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
David C. Berliner
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(8)
Part I Introducing a Teacher and His Students
Things of Use and Things of Beauty: The Swain County High School Arts Program
9(24)
An Introduction to the Program
11(1)
Moving Inside
12(2)
Community Context: Natural Richness, Economic Poverty
14(2)
The Craft Heritage: Aesthetics and Functionality
16(1)
The Official Vocational Orientation
17(2)
Nonvocational Outcomes of the Arts Program
19(9)
An Appalachian Artist Designs an Arts Program
28(5)
Part II What Do Former Students Believe They Learned?
Traces of a Teacher in the Life Stories of His Former Students
33(70)
The College Teacher
36(14)
The Restaurant Manager, the Patrolman, and the College Student
50(5)
The Waiter
55(15)
The Magician and the Parole Officer
70(21)
The ``Real Artist in the Family''
91(10)
The Chiropractor
101(2)
Part III What Do Students Teach?
Traces of Students in the Life Story of a Teacher
103(20)
The Dream
105(1)
Growing Up as an Artist
106(4)
Turning Outward as a Teacher
110(2)
Learning from His Students
112(10)
The Purge
122(1)
Part IV Ways of Touching Eternity
Analyzing Some Enduring Consequences of Teaching
123(26)
Aesthetics and Utility Revisited
125(2)
Social Adaptionists and Inherited Scripts
127(3)
Donald Forrister as Strong Poet
130(2)
The Good Pedagogue and Self-Identity
132(3)
Protecting Secret Places
135(2)
The Critical Spirit: Degrees of Transfer
137(5)
Critical Dispositions Versus Cultural Imperatives
142(5)
Questions
147(2)
Part V Researching, Writing, and Reading Narrative Studies
Issues of Epistemology and Method
149(32)
A Question of Purpose
151(4)
Epics and Novels
155(2)
Author or Writer?
157(6)
Participants as Characters
163(9)
Imagining the Reader
172(6)
The Conspiratorial Conversation
178(3)
References 181(8)
Index 189(6)
About the Author 195

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