Full Description
This book focuses on the curricular life of teachers at one high school, and features work by nine of those teachers from a variety of fields who have pursued doctoral degrees and remained at the school. These colleagues have helped produce a staff of "teacher students" across the campus, people who are committed to teaching and also committed to learning, to approaching life and the world as something to study, to recognizing that being students ourselves is an excellent way to guide the students in our classrooms. The authors in this book explore the ways they live in a "liminal," or "between" space in the high school—not quite a high school teacher, not quite a professor, but a "liminal scholar" who can participate effectively in multiple curricular spaces, and encourage conversation and understanding across those spaces.
So many people in education talk about "life-long learning," and the people in this book exemplify that idea.
Contents
Acknowledgments - John A. Weaver: Inventing Scholarly Lives - David P. Owen, Jr.: Introduction: Inventing Hope - Jack D. Arrington: Chapter 1. Humble Beginnings - Jack D. Arrington:Chapter 2. Conducting the Orchestra - Kathleen E. Barbara: Chapter 3. Trials and Triumphs: A Timeline of My Teaching Journey - Kathleen E. Barbara: Chapter 4. Spanish Language Success Stories: Insights from My Most
Achieved Learners - Stacey T. Brown: Chapter 5. The Space Between the Wall and the Bed - Stacey T. Brown: Chapter 6. Teacher on Trial: The Case of the Public Intellectual - John H. Cato: Chapter 7. Seeking the Fundamental, Elegant, and Simple - John H. Cato: Chapter 8. The High A: Opera's Highest Note Should Be Education's, Too - Mary K. Davis: Chapter 9. Never Say Never - Mary K. Davis: Chapter 10. The Power Struggle in Education - Thomas J. Davis: Chapter 11. Dr. Coach Davis - Thomas J. Davis: Chapter 12. Athletics and Education: All Men Were Created Equal, Then Some Became Athletes - Kay R. Lilly: Chapter 13. An Educator's Path: Journey of an Unexpected Teacher - Kay R. Lilly: Chapter 14. Building Bridges: Ensuring Every Voice Is Heard Within the Social Studies Classroom - Dawn R. May: Chapter 15. Finding Anchorage - Dawn R. May: Chapter 16. The Ontology of Metamodernism and the Reconstruction of Human Civility - David P. Owen, Jr.: Chapter 17. How Way Leads on to Way - David P. Owen, Jr.: Chapter 18. Getting the Big Screen Through a Small Door: Film and the High School Classroom - Notes on Contributors
