Educating for humanity : rethinking the purposes of education /

Seymour's inviting volume combines essays and interviews that focus on finding ways to reconnect personal and community life with educative experiences in today's fractured world. Eschewing prescriptions and cookbook methods, Seymour writes in the contemporary tradition of Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life (1998) and Nel Noddings's The Challenge to Care in Schools: An Alternative Approach to Education (1992). Indeed, he includes absorbing interviews with Palmer and Noddings, as well as equally engaging conversations with Deborah Meier, Sonia Nieto, James A. Banks, and other multicultural and holistic educators. This book reawakens one's purpose for teaching, learning, and living, and is meant to be a rallying call for vocational passion and the revival of spirit. Its singular blind spot lies in its comparative neglect of harsher social, political, and economic realities. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. All levels. J. L. DeVitis Georgia College & State University