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Title: To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey by Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0060664517 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: June, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43
Rating: 5
Summary: Making a Connection
Comment: I really appreciate Palmer's insight on how to rescue education from the lifeless imprint of objectivism. It may seem that Palmer is writing off objectivism totally, but that is not the case. Palmer helped me to put objectivism in its proper place. The problem addressed in this work is not objectivism so much as it is the sanctification of it as the only way to know and educate. Objectivism has its place in our knowing, but it should not be the whole of our epistemology.
He quotes Michael Polanyi who I believe to be one of the most honest thinkers of our time. I would recomend reading any of his writings prior to this. Polanyi was putting forth ideas like this long before it became popular to criticize objectivism.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Guide to Help Education Recover Its Roots
Comment: This book helped me to deepen my understanding of education as learning rather than mere schooling. Palmer's voice needs to be heard by many now crusading for education reform if schools are to live up to their potential for spiritual transformation and cultural renewal. In my experience, authentic learning, and therefore education, is a kind of spiritual formation from a postmodern perspective. This essential aspect of schooling is in danger of being lost amidst the clamor from religious and professional educators and evangelists who are proponents of the merely conventional or sectarian.
Rating: 1
Summary: The single worst book I have ever read on any subject
Comment: I was forced to read this years ago in an undergrad psych class on learning and behavior, yet it still stands out in my mind. I should have demanded a refund of my tuition, as it had no relevance to the course or to anything else.
The title alone should warn you as to how esoteric this guy is. He soon tells you about "coming into Troth with Truth." This could almost be forgivable if it were used merely as a metaphor (albeit a weird one) and quickly brought down to earth by concrete definitions of his terms. But such definitions -- the burden of even the most amateurish philosopher, if he wishes to be taken seriously -- are nowhere to be found. The whole thing reads like a Zen koan. (Wait till he starts talking about quantum physics!)
The reason for this becomes increasingly apparent as he capitalizes and personifies abstractions such as "Truth," exposing his thinly-veiled born-again-Christian paradigm. He might as well have just said "God."
To the degree that this sermon is even remotely intelligible, its take-home message is anti-rational and reveals a fundamental spite for the human faculty of reason. It preaches that one can find truth not by reading, writing, building, testing, digging up artifacts, working in the lab -- but by introspection. I'm sorry, but introspection only deepens one's prejudices. To the author, this is somehow synonymous with education.
If this condemnation sounds too harsh, by all means, PLEASE read the 5-star reviews, as they only reinforce my point.
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Title: The Courage to Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life by Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0787910589 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 21 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0787947350 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 10 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Active Life : A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring by Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0787949345 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 21 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Courage to Teach: A Guide for Reflection and Renewal by Rachel C. Livsey, Parker J. Palmer ISBN: 0787946451 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: The Heart of Learning: Spirituality in Education (New Consciousness Reader) by Steven Glazer, Colo.) Spirituality in Education Conference (1997 Boulder, Huston Smith ISBN: 0874779553 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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