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Instead he initiates a relationship with the students assessing their need which is not platitudes or gems of wisdom but a wake... Read More
Thus it fit with the subject matter of finding the personal in teaching
If you have ever been frustrated with the status quo spend some time getting to know palmers methods
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Though palmer takes an unabashedly christian viewpoint in developing his approach to pedagogy the reader need not subscribe to that or any other inflationary metaphysical framework
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Whenever you only see the negative in a system you are not seeing what good lies within that system
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Reading parker palmers book would make anyone a better educator
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But beware his concepts will probably be difficult to put into effect within a public school system where the no child left behind movement puts the authority into standardized tests and thus out of the students authority
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The hardest part about this book was getting into it
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The first three chapters show why our current perception of knowledge is wrong
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The first four chapters were good but the application of the new mindset was somewhat lacking
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Palmers writings are insightful and very pertinent to developing an educational framework for teaching although written over 20 years ago