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

Hansen, David T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807740934 ISBN 13: 9780807740934

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"David Hansen is a dedicated teacher of teachers who writes clearly and passionately about the promise of teaching. What more could all who teach require? Read what he has to say and be refreshed." - Philip W. Jackson, David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago "This is an admirable and lucid effort to present the character of the teaching life as one of moral and intellectual sensibility, a kind of grace marking a meaningful existence." - Ignacio L. Gotz, Lawrence A. Stessin Distinguished Professor, New College of Hofstra University "Exploring the Moral Heart of Teaching speaks to those who ask, What am I doing as a teacher?, yet cannot accept prevailing ideological answers. David Hansen shows the reader how to call upon the long tradition of teaching, from Confucius and Socrates to John Dewey, as a source of day-to-day sustenance and vital staying power." - Ann Diller, Professor of Education, University of New Hampshire

About the Author:

PHILIP W. JACKSON is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor of Education and Psychology and a member of the Committee on Ideas and Methods at the University of Chicago. ROBERT E. BOOSTROM is assistant professor of education in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Southern Indiana. DAVID T. HANSEN is an associate professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0807740934
• ISBN 13: 9780807740934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240