This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.
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To Know As We Are Known Book Review:
Teresa Huneke To Know As We Are Known
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Parker Palmer Parker believes there is a "spirituality of education". He believes all learning should not be to the determent of others. He believes that currently our educational system uplifts the thought that "knowledge is power". We use this power in ways that suit our own needs and don't look to the whole of our world. He believes that we have separated the visible world from the invisible world in our educational systems. One way Parker... more info
Rekindling excitement about teaching:
This books is extremely inspiring. It has gotten me excited about community again, and in particular how it differentiates the various types of community. This had gotten me excited again about teaching, for it sets teaching into spiritual perspective.
Palmer's classic:
This book is an excellent guide for the person interested in teaching AND learning. Though Palmer takes an unabashedly Christian viewpoint in developing his approach to pedagogy, the reader need not subscribe to that or any other inflationary metaphysical framework. His critique of "modern" education is consistent in many ways with that of postmodernism and other critical perspectives. Though the author speaks with a communitarian voice (which carries with it other assumptions about the organization of the... more info
Outstanding and transformational!:
Parker Palmer has created a truly outstanding work with To Know as We Are Known. This work explores the nature of truth, and challenges readers to examine and transform the ways they teach and learn
Palmer's model centers on the premise that truth is neither objective (an object can be manipulated, abused, and co-opted for use to whatever ends we so desire, we do not bear the kind of love that requires responsibility toward objects) nor subjective (subjectivism is the decision to listen only to... more info
