Spitwad Sutras: Classroom Teaching as Sublime Vocation

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.

Author: Robert Inchausti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 10/26/1993
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.59w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780897893794

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.