“Hansen hopes that moving away from current models will accelerate a desire to foster society’s well-being, educating students for lives of meaning and purpose. … A very important book for the present.”
—CHOICE
“Hansen’s lucid and eloquent description illuminates how and why teaching is a practice that forms and transforms lives in ways that are as unexpected as they are profound. Thank you, David Hansen, for showing us why teaching is so vital for human flourishing. Your insight that teaching is a calling resonates now more than ever.”
—Deborah Kerdeman, professor emerita, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle
“David Hansen’s Reimagining The Call to Teach is a book that can edify and enrich the life of a teacher at any stage of their career. Understanding that great spiritual mysteries often hide in plain sight, Hansen explores the ways in which a life devoted to the edification of others redounds to the teacher's own great benefit. In what other profession can the call to develop one's own self also help others to do likewise? Reading David Hansen's book reawakens us to the existential possibilities of teaching—and reminds us that meaning is found in skillfully attuning to the everyday realities of ‘being with’ others.”
—Kyle Greenwalt, associate director of teacher preparation and associate professor, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
“David Hansen’s Reimagining The Call to Teach is a beautiful and thoughtful book that carefully attends to the rich complexities of the teaching endeavor. Hansen offers an inspiring and rigorous account of the calling that informs the practice of good teachers.”
—Kevin Gary, professor and chair, Department of Education, Valparaiso University
