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Showing How

Act of Teaching

by Gabriel Moran

  • Paperback
  • 258 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 14 x 21.4 x 1.9 cm

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For educators, parents, and anyone who teaches

Addresses fears about the morality of teaching

You will gain a profound understanding of teaching's role

This insightful book reveals the deep meaning of teaching.

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This book is thoroughly original work on the meaning of teaching by one who has been widely credited with reshaping the field of religious education in the United States, and to have had a significant effect also in many other countries. Despite a steady flow of books that have "teaching" in the title, nearly all of them leave out most of the story. In Showing How, Gabriel Moran presents the full story of the act of teaching. Part 1 establishes a fundamental meaning for "to teach," examining why there exists a deep-seated fear that teaching is an immoral act. Professor Moran then grounds the meaning of "to teach in its most basic forms, moving from examples in the nonhuman world (what the mountain teaches the mountain climber) to communal and nonverbal forms of teaching among humans. Part 2 explores the languages of teaching and the diverse forms of speech appropriate to teaching; rhetorical forms, including storytelling and preaching; therapeutic languages; and religion'' preservation of these languages in ritualized settings, including confessing and mourning. Part 3 draws out the implications for education, the school, and the teaching of morality. Showing How addresses not only schoolteachers but parents, counselors, ministers, administrators, and everyone who can recognize teaching as a fundamental human act. By exposing the root meaning of teaching, the book represents a challenge to any proposals for educational reform. Gabriel Moran is Professor and Director of Religious Education in the Department of Culture and Communication, New York University. He is the author of sixteen books, including Uniqueness: Problem or Paradox in Jewish and Christian Traditions and A Grammar of Responsibility.
Showing How and Speaking of Teaching : Lessons from History
Speaking of Teaching : Lessons from HistoryShowing How

  • Title

    Showing How

  • Author

    Gabriel Moran

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    December 1996

  • Weight

    350g

  • Page Count

    258

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.4 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781563381874

  • ISBN-10

    1563381877

  • Eden Code

    1178221

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