What is it that passes between the best teachers and their students to make learning happen? What does it take to teach fire-fighters to run in to burning buildings? Can the neurosurgeon's 'sense of surgery' be taught? What does it mean to teach or learn inside a prison? This title addresses these questions.
Congress? Smoot's insightful questions elicit thought-provoking reflections about teaching as a calling and its aims, frustrations, and satisfactions.