Teaching to Learn/Learning to Teach : Meditations on the Classroom

This book is a collection of stories about teaching and learning in the liberal arts classroom, written by a Quaker who is a part-time professor of American literature and gender studies at a small, historically Quaker, liberal arts college for women outside of Philadelphia. The author reflects on the point and purpose of education in such a space, with a particular concern for the religious and interactive dimensions of the process. This book includes multiple accounts by students and colleagues, reflecting on their own experiences of teaching and learning and acknowledges the powers and limits of storytelling as a means of making sense of what happens in the college classroom. « Anne French Dalke's courageous investigation of her own teaching practice provides those of us who can't help questioning ourselves as teachers with the solace of companionship, the wisdom of experience, and an unexpected sense of our own dignity as pilgrims on the path. (Jane Tompkins, Author of 'A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned') « I'm moved and excited by this

Anne French Dalke received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Senior Lecturer in English at Bryn Mawr College, where she coordinates the Feminist and Gender Studies Program and is particularly committed to the McBride Scholars Program for women beyond traditional college age. She has published widely on pedagogical and canonical questions. A member of Radnor Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, she lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and four children