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- catalog abstract "Jane Tompkins established herself as a major critic by rebelling: against the accepted canon of great literary works, against the elitist approach of literary criticism, against the sterile conventions of scholarly writing. Here she tells the story of how she came to rebel against the very norms of the Ivory Tower she had once struggled to enter. In retelling her own experiences as student and teacher, she makes us keenly aware how the pressure to perform - to show how smart we are - silences the creative and emotional life. In a memoir that begins with her earliest school days, proceeds through college and graduate school, and arrives at her hard-won professional successes, Tompkins shows how her education shaped her in the mold of a high achiever who could read five languages but had little knowledge of herself. As she slowly awakens to the needs of her body, heart, and spirit, she throws out the window all the conventions of classroom teaching and discovers what her students' lives are like. Tompkins comes to develop an attitude toward learning that accepts the importance of the inner life. With this new-found pedagogy, one is educated not only through reading Melville or T.S. Eliot, but also through more unusual channels: a karate lesson, Buddhist meditation, cooking a meal, walking a dog.".
- catalog contributor b10290832.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 229).".
- catalog description "Jane Tompkins established herself as a major critic by rebelling: against the accepted canon of great literary works, against the elitist approach of literary criticism, against the sterile conventions of scholarly writing. Here she tells the story of how she came to rebel against the very norms of the Ivory Tower she had once struggled to enter. In retelling her own experiences as student and teacher, she makes us keenly aware how the pressure to perform - to show how smart we are - silences the creative and emotional life. In a memoir that begins with her earliest school days, proceeds through college and graduate school, and arrives at her hard-won professional successes, Tompkins shows how her education shaped her in the mold of a high achiever who could read five languages but had little knowledge of herself. As she slowly awakens to the needs of her body, heart, and spirit, she throws out the window all the conventions of classroom teaching and discovers what her students' lives are like. Tompkins comes to develop an attitude toward learning that accepts the importance of the inner life. With this new-found pedagogy, one is educated not only through reading Melville or T.S. Eliot, but also through more unusual channels: a karate lesson, Buddhist meditation, cooking a meal, walking a dog.".
- catalog description "The dream of authority -- P.S. 98 -- Foyer -- Other people -- Teachers -- Talking in class -- Higher education -- Making it -- Ash Wednesday -- The day I walked out of class -- Postcards from the edge -- Reverie -- Karate Lesson -- Let's get Lost -- The way we live now -- Coffee -- Time out -- The cloister and the heart -- Epilogue : chair, table, lamp.".
- catalog extent "xix, 229 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Life in school.".
- catalog identifier "0201912120".
- catalog isFormatOf "Life in school.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.,".
- catalog relation "Life in school.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "371.1/0092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Education United States Experimental methods.".
- catalog subject "LA2317.T65 A3 1996".
- catalog subject "Teachers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Teaching United States.".
- catalog subject "Tompkins, Jane P.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The dream of authority -- P.S. 98 -- Foyer -- Other people -- Teachers -- Talking in class -- Higher education -- Making it -- Ash Wednesday -- The day I walked out of class -- Postcards from the edge -- Reverie -- Karate Lesson -- Let's get Lost -- The way we live now -- Coffee -- Time out -- The cloister and the heart -- Epilogue : chair, table, lamp.".
- catalog title "A life in school : what the teacher learned / Jane Tompkins.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".