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March 29, 2017
Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom
- Author
- Dalke, Anne French
- Publisher
- Peter Lang, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 820457531
- Table of Contents
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Groundings
ch. 1 A Journal of My Instruction: Class as Text
ch. 2 "Outside the Mainstream"/In the "Well of Living Waters": Class as Quaker Meeting for Business
ch. 3 "Shuddering Without End": Class as Dinner Party
ch. 4 "Silence Is So Windowful": Class as Antechamber
ch. 5 "Turtles All the Way Down": Class as Persistent Critique
ch. 6 "The Form of a Longing": Class as Falling in and out of Love
ch. 7 "Fullness of Life": Class as Paradise
Openings
Bibliography
Index
Dalke brings together a collection of accounts written by herself, students and colleagues. These are incorporated into seven chapters corresponding to the seven stages of Dalke's reflection about teaching and learning in the liberal arts classroom. The text explores the evolution of Dalke's approach to teaching; Dalke's decision to redesign her classes using the model of the Quaker Meeting for Business; difficulties she faced when trying to apply such a model, including the complexities which silence and desire contribute to the classroom; and Dalke's attempt to describe "a vision of the paradise that my classroom might be as well as the unending labor and prayer needed to maintain such a space." (From the Publisher)