Title: Teaching What Can't Be Taught: The Shaman's Strategy
Author: David Rigoni
Publisher: ScarecrowEducation
Publication Date: 2002-10-15
ISBN: 0810843625
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good +
Jacket condition: None as issued
Notes: Ex-university library copy that has seen little use. Expected library stickers and stamps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover is glossy with light surface rubbing. Corners are square; binding tight. Would easily rate as Very Good if not for the library markings.
About the Book
The current educational culture of standards, accountability, and creeping educational capitalism finds teachers increasingly teaching laundry lists of facts and skills. Less attention is being paid to the "big picture" or worldview. Author David Rigoni offers an alternative perspective. Using a shaman metaphor, he examines how the most important learning in a professional program takes place between the lines of the formal curriculum. He argues that this worldview change ought to be intentional and that all aspects of the educational process ought to work to that end. To clarify what is needed, the book then looks to educators from throughout history who worked with their students with a total focus on changing their worldviews. These educators, of course, are the shamans.
About the Author
David Rigoni is an associate professor and chair of the Teacher Education Department at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has 14 years classroom experience as a high school English teacher.
