ABSTRACT
In an era in which the teaching enterprise is freighted with tactics, techniques, and methods, M. Robert Gardner guides us back to the spirit of teaching. He writes especially about the dilemmas and challenges of teaching, about how it feels to be trying to teach. Gardner's provocative, often iconoclastic musings will goad teachers of all subjects to reflect anew on their calling. Clinical readers will take special pleasure in the humane psychoanalytic sensibility that not only infuses Gardner's own teaching, but shapes his approach to the most basic questions about teaching and learning in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|62 pages
Book I: The School of Soft Knocks
chapter 1|8 pages
The Furor to Teach
chapter 2|8 pages
The Unknown Student
chapter 3|4 pages
Gulliver at Home and Abroad
chapter 4|3 pages
On Teacherly Versatility
chapter 5|7 pages
The Warp and the Woof
chapter 6|5 pages
On Creativity, Discipline, and Other Desiderata
chapter 7|22 pages
A Concise Histroy of Teaching
chapter 8|3 pages
Concise Addendum to a Concise History of Teaching
part 2|101 pages
Book II: A Gentle Symbiosis