The Courage to Teach

PARKER J. PALMER is a highly respected writer who works indepAndently on issues in education, community, spirituality, and social change; he offers lectures, workshops, and retreats across the country. In 1998, The Leadership Project, a survey of 11,000 educators, named Dr. Palmer as one of the thirty most influential senior leaders in higher education and one of ten key 'agAnda--setters' of the past decade: He has inspired a generation of teachers and reformers with evocative visions of community, knowing, and spiritual wholeness. Dr. Palmer is senior associate of the American Association for Higher Education and senior advisor to the Fetzer Institute, for whom he designed the Teacher Formation Program for K--12 teachers. Author of such widely--praised books as The Company of Strangers, The Active Life, and To Know As We Are Known, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Introduction: Teaching From Within; The Heart of a Teacher: Identity and Integrity in Teaching; A Culture of Fear: Education and the Disconnected Life; The Hidden Wholeness: Paradox in Teaching and Learning; Knowing in Community: Joined by the Grace of Great Things; Teaching in Community: A Subject-Centered Education; Learning in Community: The Conversation of Colleagues; Divided No More: Teaching from a Heart of Hope.