INTRODUCTION.

PART ONE: Guidelines for Individual and Group Study.

Individual Study.

Group Study.

Membership and Leadership.

Physical Space.

Intellectual Space.

Emotional Space.

Spiritual Space.

Six Paradoxes of Space.

The Clearness Committee.

Touchstones for Creating Safe Spaces.

A Word of Encouragement.

PART TWO: Questions and Activities for Each Chapter.

I The Heart of a Teacher: Identity and Integrity in Teaching.

II A Culture of Fear: Education and the Disconnected Life.

III The Hidden Wholeness: Paradox in Teaching and Learning.

IV Knowing in Community: Joined by the Grace of Great Things.

V Teaching in Community: A Subject-Centered Education.

VI Learning in Community: The Conversation of Colleagues.

VII Divided No More: Teaching from a Heart of Hope.

Afterword to the Tenth Anniversary Edition: The New Professional: Education for Transformation.

APPENDIXES.

A Suggestions for Organizing a Courage to Teach Book Discussion Group, by David Leo-Nyquist.

Sample Invitation Letter for a Courage to Teach Book Discussion Group.

Sample Follow-Up Letter for a Courage to Teach Book Discussion Group.

B The Heart of a Teacher: Identity and Integrity in Teaching (an essay from Change magazine that summarizes The Courage to Teach).

C The Clearness Committee: A Communal Approach to Discernment.

D About the Center for Courage & Renewal.

E The Courage to Teach: A Retreat Program for Personal Renewal and Institutional Transformation, by Parker J. Palmer.

F Resources for Courage to Teach Discussion Groups.

THE AUTHORS.

ABOUT THE DVD.