Teaching with Reverence Reviving an Ancient Virtue for Today's Schools [Hardcover]

Reverence is a forgotten virtue in teaching and learning. When taken in a broader spiritual sense, it is often associated with a mute and prim solemnity. The essays gathered here examine reverence as a way to understand some of the spiritual dimensions of classroom teaching.Reverence and Teaching: Reviving an Ancient Virtue for Today's Schools The Practice of Reverent Teaching - Robert Boostrom Reverence and Love in Teaching - Daniel P. Liston 'To Seek by Way of Silence' - Michael Dale 'Spots of Time That Glow' - Reverence, Epiphany, and the Teaching Life: Sam M. Intrator Awakening Reverence: The Role of Descriptive Inquiry in Developing Perception and Reverence-The Case of the Prospect School Teacher Education Program - Carol Rodgers Risking Reverence - Elaine J. O'Quinn Reverence for What? A Teacher's Quest - William H. Schubert Lesson One: Reverence - William Ayers Quotidian Sublimity - Megan J. Laverty Reverence for Things Not Seen: Implied Creators in Works of Art, Implied Teachers in Creative Pedagogy - Bruce Novak

Rud and Garrison are prolific philosophers of education. They believe reverence is the heart of the educational endeavor. . . Teachers might be intrigued by the promise of reverence but still wonder how to create it in their students. Helpfully, several of the essays are somewhat autobiographical, showing how some teachers have made the effort. Recommended.

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Reverence is central to education, but sadly neglected. I hope teachers at all levels will pay attention to this important topic. - Paul Woodruff, Darrell K. Royal Professor in Ethics and American Society and Inaugural Dean of Undergraduate Studies, The University of Texas at Austin; author of Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue

In these times when education is being turned into a commodity to prepare workers for the global economy and emotionally neutral and technical forms of teaching and narrow forms of accountabililãÜ