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This work goes beyond the basics of classroom management to consider the path of both teacher and student toward authentic intellectual maturity and spiritual growth. It provides a framework for stripping away the external and personal pressures that bleed intellectual content out of classroom teaching so that teachers may, in fact, experience their vocation as sublime. Written in the novelistic first-person narrative, it is a seasoned teacher's story of his initiation from graduate student at the University of Chicago to ninth-grade teacher in a Catholic high school where he manned the battle lines in provincial, petty, sometime even violent world of American secondary school. It is also the story of how a certain Brother Blake, a 67-year-old practitioner of the pedagogy of the sublime, passed on his vision of classroom teaching as a sublime vocation. A major contribution to the field by the acclaimed author of The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Vocation or Provocation?
The Dialectics of Discipline
Breakthrough
The Lost Art
Classroom Praxis from A to B
Ceremonies Sacred and Profane
Attempting the Impossible
Teaching Social Science
Teaching English Composition
Teaching Social Justice
Teaching Sex Education
Teaching Literature
Higher Education
Program Notes
Maxims, Aphorisms, Insights and Reflections
Selected Reading
Index
About the author
ROBERT INCHAUSTI is Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University. His earlier work, The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People, examines the lives of six visionaries: Mother Teresa, Lech Walesa, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Elie Wiesel.
