This Rough Magic: The Life of Teaching

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Teachers, in Lindley's view, perform the equivalent of Prospero's rough magic in classrooms day in and day out. They do this, as Shakespeare's magician did, by combining their own stories--their own lives--with the art and craft of teaching. Lindley sets out to heighten the awareness of experienced and novice teachers alike by connecting concrete illustrations of the teaching/learning process with the teacher's inner world. Lindley emphasizes the practical in his discussion of what happens when teachers and students interact in real classrooms. He makes use of his own and others' school teaching, his long experience as a director of a teacher education program, and his training in Jungian psychoanalysis. In the process, he has created a book to re-energize the in-service teacher and to educate the pre-service teacher. Parents, administrators, indeed anyone interested not only in teaching but in communicating across generational and cultural gaps will find this book fascinating and useful.

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This book integrates the author's recent experiences with Jungian psychology with his many years of experience teaching both adolescents in the secondary classroom and students going into teaching in the college classroom.....This is a excellent little book that is full of much insight and wisdom about teaching and which can provide the classroom teacher at all levels of instruction with much to think about. For this author, teaching is a liminal experience, betwixt and between the student and the teacher, the school and the curriculum. This book substantially illuminates that space. And no teacher who reads it will be able to put it down without reflecting on their own place within that space.-Clinical Sociology Review
"This book integrates the author's recent experiences with Jungian psychology with his many years of experience teaching both adolescents in the secondary classroom and students going into teaching in the college classroom.....This is a excellent little book that is full of much insight and wisdom about teaching and which can provide the classroom teacher at all levels of instruction with much to think about. For this author, teaching is a liminal experience, betwixt and between the student and the teacher, the school and the curriculum. This book substantially illuminates that space. And no teacher who reads it will be able to put it down without reflecting on their own place within that space."-Clinical Sociology Review

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DANIEL A. LINDLEY was for twenty years Associate Professor of English and chair of English Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, after teaching at Yale and Dartmouth. His secondary school teaching was done at the Groton School and the laboratory schools of the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, and Florida State University. Lindley is a Jungian analyst in private practice.