Standing Lessons: A NOVEL - Couverture souple

Rindfleisch, Norval

 
9780595217984: Standing Lessons: A NOVEL
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595217982 ISBN 13 : 9780595217984
Editeur : iUniverse, 2002

Synopsis

STANDING LESSONS is a wry, witty, and bittersweet story of Jack Bartley, a history teacher, coach and dorm master in a small rural New England private school. Although satisfied, almost complacent with his life, he encounters challenges to his powers as an effective teacher and coach as well as to his sense of self worth and his most cherished values. But this novel is more than the story of one teacher. Virtually every aspect of a traditional private school is touched upon directly or indirectly: a senior faces expulsion for dishonesty and discovers that giving up is more noble than persisting; a young girl dreams of sometime gaining equity with boys in their traditional world; a disciplinary case divides the faculty with little hope of resolution; a student's private problem verges upon a compromise of privacy. Most of all, however, a dialectic in which the principles that underlie the teaching of morality emerges and through which the question of the morality of teaching itself becomes a central philosophic issue.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

STANDING LESSONS is a wry, witty, and bittersweet story of Jack Bartley, a history teacher, coach and dorm master in a small rural New England private school. Although satisfied, almost complacent with his life, he encounters challenges to his powers as an effective teacher and coach as well as to his sense of self worth and his most cherished values. But this novel is more than the story of one teacher. Virtually every aspect of a traditional private school is touched upon directly or indirectly: a senior faces expulsion for dishonesty and discovers that giving up is more noble than persisting; a young girl dreams of sometime gaining equity with boys in their traditional world; a disciplinary case divides the faculty with little hope of resolution; a student's private problem verges upon a compromise of privacy. Most of all, however, a dialectic in which the principles that underlie the teaching of morality emerges and through which the question of the morality of teaching itself becomes a central philosophic issue.

Biographie de l'auteur

Norval Rindfleisch is the author of five books of short fiction. His stories have won an O. Henry Award and recogntion in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES anthologies. He has taught in private schools primarily in New England for over 30 years. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595217982
ISBN 13 
9780595217984
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
290
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Personne responsable
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