Palmer, Parker J. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of A Teacher’s Life. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998).
Parker Palmer’s now classic work, The Courage to Teach, offers deeply inspiring insights into the challenges of teaching with humanity and compassion. It is an exceptional example of the Scholar-Practitioner quality of Metacognitive Reflection and offers a compelling portrait of an educator striving to maintain his integrity within the complexity of a teaching life. The book is now available in a 20th Anniversary Edition.
Parker J. Palmer is the Founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. The link to this website is http://www.couragerenewal.org/about/
For more of Palmer’s views on teaching see the video section of the S-P Library.