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P , R , P EDAGOGY ELIGION AND RACTICE This page intentionally left blank P , R , P EDAGOGY ELIGION AND RACTICE REFLECTIONS ON ETHICS AND TEACHING Alan A. Block PEDAGOGY, RELIGION, ANDPRACTICE: REFLECTIONSONETHICSANDTEACHING Copyright © Katharine Adeney, 2007. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 20077 ISBN 978-1-4039-8373-2 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-53916-1 ISBN 978-0-230-60719-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230607194 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Block, Alan A., 1947- Pedagogy, religion and practice : reflections on ethics and teaching / Alan A. Block. p. cm. ISBN 1-4039-8373-9 (alk. paper) 1. Teaching. 2. Reflection (Philosophy) 3. College teachers--Professional ethics. 4. Education--Philosophy. I. Title. LB1025.3.B587 2007 371.102--dc22 2007003545 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: September 2007 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Dedicated to my dear friend, Gary Welch, who, over hundreds and hundreds of miles has listened to and discussed every word of this book. I thank him always with insufficient gratitude. This page intentionally left blank C ONTENTS Introduction 1 I Leaving the Fields 9 1 The First Sapling 11 2 The Second Sapling 15 3 The Third Sapling 29 4 The Fourth Sapling 53 II On Entering the Fields 59 5 The Fifth Sapling 61 6 The Sixth Sapling 93 7 The Seventh Sapling 133 8 The Eighth Sapling 165 9 The Ninth Sapling 225 10 The Tenth Sapling 261 References 269 This page intentionally left blank Adonai spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall observe a Sabbath rest for Adonai. For six years you may sow your field and for six years you may prune your vineyard; and you may gather in its crop. But the seventh shall be a complete rest for the land, a Sabbath for Adonai; your field you shall not sow and your vine- yard you shall not prune. The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap and the grapes you had set aside for yourself you shall not pick; it shall be a year of rest for the land. The Sabbath produce of the land shall be yours to eat, for you, for your slave, and for your maidservant; and for your laborer and for your resident who dwell with you. And for your animal and for the beast that is in your land shall all its crop be to eat. Leviticus 25:1–7 Walden is melting apace. There is a canal two rods wide along the northerly and westerly sides, and wider still at the east end. A great field of ice has cracked off from the main body. I hear a song-sparrow singing from the bushes on the shore—olit, olit, olit—chip, chip, chip, che char—che wiss, wiss, wiss. He too is helping to crack it. How hand- some the great sweeping curves in the edge of the ice, answering some- what to those of the shore, but more regular! It is unusually hard, owing to the recent severe but transient cold, and all watered or waved like a palace floor. But the wind slides eastward over its opaque surface in vain, till it reaches the living surface beyond. It is glorious to behold this ribbon of water sparkling in the sun, the bare face of the pond full of glee and youth, as if it spoke the joy of the fishes within it, and of the sands on its shore—a silvery sheen as from the scales of a leuciscus, as it were all one active fish. Such is the contrast between winter and spring. Walden was dead and is alive again. But this spring it broke up more steadily, as I have said. Henry David Thoreau And how can I not call it “Melting Apace.” Perhaps this process refers to me as well—as the sabbatical proceeds, perhaps I, too, will melt apace and the life in me will reawaken. Alan A. Block
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