Spirituality, Ethics, Religion, and Teaching : A Professor's Journey

This book is a first-person, pedagogical reflection on what the author--an applied philosopher with an appointment in a professional school--has learned about being a teacher and a student, over a thirty-five-year career in a « public ivy university. This narrative candidly recounts a series of life-changing, intellectual, and emotional insights gleaned over three decades from students, colleagues, scholars, and mentors. The author's personal story traces the struggle to create a passionate spirituality of teaching, one that reframes traditional notions of religion and spirituality, as well as one that attempts to correct conventional misunderstandings of postmodernism. Nash's story is every educator's story--lived in unique ways at every level of teaching. « Robert J. Nash's 'Spirituality, Ethics, Religion, and Teaching: A Professor's Journey' tells the story of a common journey of all teachers in an uncommon language. When I was his student, he always encouraged me to respectfully learn the other's language and create my own bricolage. We continue

Robert J. Nash is Professor in the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont.