RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Voices Inside Schools - Middle-Age Teaching: A Time of Vitality
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 583
OP 588
DO 10.17763/haer.68.4.m5u1219635p48852
VO 68
IS 4
A1 Erdmann, Abigail Brant
YR 1998
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/68/4/583.abstract
AB In this article, Abigail Erdmann reflects on her career as a classroom teacher. She shares her delight in discovering that middle age isn't, as she had once thought, a time of boredom or complacency. Instead, she finds it to be a time of growing vitality as her relationship to teaching deepens and changes. She realizes that her students have educated her as much as she has educated them, and reveals that this reciprocity is a primary reason why she continues to find teaching to be a vital and rewarding career. (pp. 584-589)