The Alchemy of Teaching: The Transformation of Lives - Softcover

Conway, Jeremiah

 
9781591811817: The Alchemy of Teaching: The Transformation of Lives
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1591811813 ISBN 13: 9781591811817
Verlag: Sentient Publications, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This book takes readers into the messy, wondrous struggle for human change that occurs in classrooms. Written by long-time college professor Jeremiah Conway, the book contains teaching stories in which he reflects on the insights he and his students have gained from each other. Through engaging narrative, he illuminates the transformative effects of education on the "student from hell" who argues with him constantly, a student diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, and a talented student who is just going through the motions, among others. This book is for teachers at all levels who are hungry to be reminded that teaching is a privilege and lives are at stake in it, students who want an education that is more than job training, and all who are concerned with the educator's role in developing the whole person.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeremiah Conway is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He has won the university's Outstanding Teaching Award several times, has been awarded the university's endowed Russell Chair in Philosophy and Education, and has received the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship. He has published over forty articles on teaching and philosophy in scholarly journals. He regularly speaks at education forums put on by organizations such as the Maine Humanities Council and the Association for Core Texts and Courses. Professor Conway earned a B.A. from Fordham University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He was editor-in-chief of The Maine Scholar for thirteen years. In addition to teaching, he practices Irish set-dancing, keeps an old accordion warm, and likes to travel the back roads of Maine and Portugal, his wife's native country. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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Verlag
Sentient Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1591811813
ISBN 13 
9781591811817
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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