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Reverence for What? A Teacher’s Quest

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Reverence has had many meanings for me as I have journeyed over six decades in this curriculum called my life. I want to share some of them here in hopes that readers will reconstruct and reflect on the meanings of reverence that have brought them to their own current juncture. Thus, to illustrate, I begin by recalling my childhood, youth, academic life, young adulthood, elementary teaching experience, and continue with my life as a professor. I note strengths and limitations of the succession of objects of my sense of reverence along the way. Without giving away the ending, as children often say in their book reports, I conclude by sketching where this journey puts me today. As for a hint about this, I have felt as edified by the quest as by any of the objects of reverence that captivated me at a given time. So, now into the story.

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  1. William H. Schubert
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Washington State University, USA

    A. G. Rud (Dean and professor in the College of Education) (Dean and professor in the College of Education)

  2. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

    Jim Garrison (Professor of philosophy of education) (Professor of philosophy of education)

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Schubert, W.H. (2012). Reverence for What? A Teacher’s Quest. In: Rud, A.G., Garrison, J. (eds) Teaching with Reverence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012166_8

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