This Rough Magic: The Life of Teaching

This Rough Magic: The Life of Teaching
ISBN-10
0897893638
ISBN-13
9780897893633
Series
This Rough Magic
Category
Education / General
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
1993-11-30
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Author
Daniel Lindley

Description

Teachers, in Lindley's view, perform the equivalent of Prospero's rough magic in classrooms day in and day out. They do this, as Shakespeare's magician did, by combining their own stories--their own lives--with the art and craft of teaching. Lindley sets out to heighten the awareness of experienced and novice teachers alike by connecting concrete illustrations of the teaching/learning process with the teacher's inner world.

Lindley emphasizes the practical in his discussion of what happens when teachers and students interact in real classrooms. He makes use of his own and others' school teaching, his long experience as a director of a teacher education program, and his training in Jungian psychoanalysis. In the process, he has created a book to re-energize the in-service teacher and to educate the pre-service teacher. Parents, administrators, indeed anyone interested not only in teaching but in communicating across generational and cultural gaps will find this book fascinating and useful.

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