Musings on a 10th Muse
Becoming a Teacher Who Writes - Let Teaching be your Writing Muse - Nancy S. Gorrell
Mark Gutkowski [+]
The World School
Global Academic Dean of Avenues: The World School
Description
In his Foreword to the book, Mark Gutkowski, Global Academic Dean of Avenues: The World School, reflects on the author’s positing of a tenth muse, one of learning and teaching, to stand alongside the other nine muses of the Greek world. He proposes that the Museum of Alexandria, transformed from the ancient mouseion (a religious center in which muses were worshipped) to a secular place of learning, can be considered to have been the purview of a muse of Learning. He goes on to suggest that a classroom can be a place to experience the power of a learning and teaching muse, to celebrate and capture in words the small moments of humanity that exist in the classroom and share them with the world.