The Ecological Heart of Teaching
Radical Tales of Refuge and Renewal for Classrooms and Communities
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- New York, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2016. XV, 265 pp.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Foreword: Not Just as We Please, or by Choice: A Meditation on What It Means to Make a Difference
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: We Went Once Around the Sun: Some Notes on the Origins and Organization of This Book
- Chapter Three: From What Does Ethical Relationality Flow? An Indian Act in Three Artifacts
- Chapter Four: Successful Assimilation
- Chapter Five: A Pedagogy of Panic
- Chapter Six: A Better Place
- Chapter Seven: All Beings Are Your Ancestors: A Bear Sutra on Ecology, Buddhism and Pedagogy (1997)
- Chapter Eight: Relearning Freedom: Advice to a New Teacher
- Chapter Nine: Matches
- Chapter Ten: A Modern Hunting Tradition
- Chapter Eleven: “You Need Accuracy”: An Appreciation of a “Modern Hunting Tradition”
- Chapter Twelve: Advice to New Teachers
- Chapter Thirteen: Beckoning
- Chapter Fourteen: Remembering Mr. Routhier
- Chapter Fifteen: Teaching Everything
- Chapter Sixteen: Blossom Everlasting: A Meditation
- Chapter Seventeen: Timed Beings
- Chapter Eighteen: In My Timid Voice
- Chapter Nineteen: My Brother
- Chapter Twenty: Advice to a New Teacher
- Chapter Twenty-One: Meditations on Contemplative Pedagogy as Sanctuary
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Thoughts and Aspirations for a New Teacher
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Dear New Teacher
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Henry
- Chapter Twenty-Five: A Little Uprising
- Chapter Twenty-Six: (Here Is) Where You Are Supposed to Be
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: River Otters and Such
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: My Teacher Supply List
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Chapter Thirty: Echolocations
- Chapter Thirty-One: Chasing Calmness
- Chapter Thirty-Two: Tortuga
- Chapter Thirty-Three: Conversation
- Chapter Thirty-Four: Dear New Teacher
- Chapter Thirty-Five: Nani
- Chapter Thirty-Six: On Witches and Kites
- Chapter Thirty-Seven: It Is All Love
- Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Typewriter
- Chapter Thirty-Nine: Curriculum Artifact: Guided Reading Table
- Chapter Forty: New Stories and Roles
- Chapter Forty-One: Too Young for an Identity Crisis
- Chapter Forty-Two: From Darkness to Light: Observations From Inside the Linoleum Cavern
- Chapter Forty-Three: Hypocrite
- Chapter Forty-Four: Two Young Fish
- Chapter Forty-Five: Whisking Away the Table
- Chapter Forty-Six: Spontaneous Learning
- Chapter Forty-Seven: “I Love the Terror in a Mother’s Heart”
- Chapter Forty-Eight: Dear Adam’s Teacher
- Chapter Forty-Nine: Remembrances of the Land and Rocks in My Pocket
- Chapter Fifty: Fish Bones in the Trees
- Chapter Fifty-One: Let’s Take a Journey
- Chapter Fifty-Two: Old Dog, Same Trick
- Chapter Fifty-Three: Thoughts on Being Neither Finished nor Unfinished
- Chapter Fifty-Four: There Is Only This Farm
- Chapter Fifty-Five: How to Love Black Snow
- Chapter Fifty-Six: Bee & Nothingness
- Chapter Fifty-Seven: Turning In/wards
- Chapter Fifty-Eight: Radiant Beings
- Chapter Fifty-Nine: Additional Thoughts on the Terror in a Mother’s Heart: An Allegorical/Pedagogical Speculation on the Economies of Knowledge
- Chapter Sixty: Josh
- Chapter Sixty-One: Curriculum Theorizing
- Chapter Sixty-Two: Interview With the Gym Hall Water Fountain
- Chapter Sixty-Three: Beyond the Outfield Fence
- Chapter Sixty-Four: American Dippers and Alberta Winter Strawberries
- Chapter Sixty-Five: Advice to a New Teacher
- Chapter Sixty-Six: Girls, Go Close the Doors!
- Chapter Sixty-Seven: So Many Voices
- Chapter Sixty-Eight: An Ode to Xmas Present
- Chapter Sixty-Nine: Dear Cohort
- Chapter Seventy: An Address
- Chapter Seventy-One: Becoming Uncongealed
- Chapter Seventy-Two: Ode to My Rabbit Teacher
- Chapter Seventy-Three: School Storage Bags: Not as Innocent as They Seem
- Chapter Seventy-Four: Teaching, Practice, Wisdom: An Invitation to the Banff Centre
- Chapter Seventy-Five: “The Path and the Goal”
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Series index
Extract
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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
Dear New Teacher
DEREK LAWSON
You have stepped into the breach. There’s no turning back now. All those years of school, the two university degrees, the ups and downs of your practicums; all these experiences have led you to this point. No amount of preparation is going to steel you for those feelings niggling at you somewhere in the recesses of your mind: Can I do this? Am I prepared? What if it all goes wrong? Will I have to dream it up all over again?
You will be pulled in directions that you are going to have to learn how to navigate: How to compromise your personal beliefs for the good of your nascent practice, how to satisfy the leviathan of “the system,” how to negotiate your professional relationships. I could go on, but you already know these things. You may not know the specifics, but you sense that there may be choppy waters ahead.
There are really only two things that I think you need to consider as a new teacher: authenticity and discovering what is worthwhile. Be warned. Authenticity is powerful, as you will be exposing your weaknesses, biases and personal shortcomings. The glorious beauty is that your students will respond to your authenticity. They will feel a deep personal connection to you, and your (Gk.) nous, your soul as a teacher. They are the reason you are reading this...
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Or login to access all content.- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Foreword: Not Just as We Please, or by Choice: A Meditation on What It Means to Make a Difference
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: We Went Once Around the Sun: Some Notes on the Origins and Organization of This Book
- Chapter Three: From What Does Ethical Relationality Flow? An Indian Act in Three Artifacts
- Chapter Four: Successful Assimilation
- Chapter Five: A Pedagogy of Panic
- Chapter Six: A Better Place
- Chapter Seven: All Beings Are Your Ancestors: A Bear Sutra on Ecology, Buddhism and Pedagogy (1997)
- Chapter Eight: Relearning Freedom: Advice to a New Teacher
- Chapter Nine: Matches
- Chapter Ten: A Modern Hunting Tradition
- Chapter Eleven: “You Need Accuracy”: An Appreciation of a “Modern Hunting Tradition”
- Chapter Twelve: Advice to New Teachers
- Chapter Thirteen: Beckoning
- Chapter Fourteen: Remembering Mr. Routhier
- Chapter Fifteen: Teaching Everything
- Chapter Sixteen: Blossom Everlasting: A Meditation
- Chapter Seventeen: Timed Beings
- Chapter Eighteen: In My Timid Voice
- Chapter Nineteen: My Brother
- Chapter Twenty: Advice to a New Teacher
- Chapter Twenty-One: Meditations on Contemplative Pedagogy as Sanctuary
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Thoughts and Aspirations for a New Teacher
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Dear New Teacher
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Henry
- Chapter Twenty-Five: A Little Uprising
- Chapter Twenty-Six: (Here Is) Where You Are Supposed to Be
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: River Otters and Such
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: My Teacher Supply List
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Chapter Thirty: Echolocations
- Chapter Thirty-One: Chasing Calmness
- Chapter Thirty-Two: Tortuga
- Chapter Thirty-Three: Conversation
- Chapter Thirty-Four: Dear New Teacher
- Chapter Thirty-Five: Nani
- Chapter Thirty-Six: On Witches and Kites
- Chapter Thirty-Seven: It Is All Love
- Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Typewriter
- Chapter Thirty-Nine: Curriculum Artifact: Guided Reading Table
- Chapter Forty: New Stories and Roles
- Chapter Forty-One: Too Young for an Identity Crisis
- Chapter Forty-Two: From Darkness to Light: Observations From Inside the Linoleum Cavern
- Chapter Forty-Three: Hypocrite
- Chapter Forty-Four: Two Young Fish
- Chapter Forty-Five: Whisking Away the Table
- Chapter Forty-Six: Spontaneous Learning
- Chapter Forty-Seven: “I Love the Terror in a Mother’s Heart”
- Chapter Forty-Eight: Dear Adam’s Teacher
- Chapter Forty-Nine: Remembrances of the Land and Rocks in My Pocket
- Chapter Fifty: Fish Bones in the Trees
- Chapter Fifty-One: Let’s Take a Journey
- Chapter Fifty-Two: Old Dog, Same Trick
- Chapter Fifty-Three: Thoughts on Being Neither Finished nor Unfinished
- Chapter Fifty-Four: There Is Only This Farm
- Chapter Fifty-Five: How to Love Black Snow
- Chapter Fifty-Six: Bee & Nothingness
- Chapter Fifty-Seven: Turning In/wards
- Chapter Fifty-Eight: Radiant Beings
- Chapter Fifty-Nine: Additional Thoughts on the Terror in a Mother’s Heart: An Allegorical/Pedagogical Speculation on the Economies of Knowledge
- Chapter Sixty: Josh
- Chapter Sixty-One: Curriculum Theorizing
- Chapter Sixty-Two: Interview With the Gym Hall Water Fountain
- Chapter Sixty-Three: Beyond the Outfield Fence
- Chapter Sixty-Four: American Dippers and Alberta Winter Strawberries
- Chapter Sixty-Five: Advice to a New Teacher
- Chapter Sixty-Six: Girls, Go Close the Doors!
- Chapter Sixty-Seven: So Many Voices
- Chapter Sixty-Eight: An Ode to Xmas Present
- Chapter Sixty-Nine: Dear Cohort
- Chapter Seventy: An Address
- Chapter Seventy-One: Becoming Uncongealed
- Chapter Seventy-Two: Ode to My Rabbit Teacher
- Chapter Seventy-Three: School Storage Bags: Not as Innocent as They Seem
- Chapter Seventy-Four: Teaching, Practice, Wisdom: An Invitation to the Banff Centre
- Chapter Seventy-Five: “The Path and the Goal”
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Series index