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The Teacher's Art

If teaching is an art, can it be learned or is it an innate skill? Mark Tully discusses the qualities of a good teacher with a former Unesco director of education, Kabir Shaikh.

Mark Tully explores the very best of teachers - and the very worst - through fiction, philosophy and memoirs, considering the essential attributes of a great teacher and the formative influence teachers can have throughout our lives.

He talks to former teacher Kabir Shaikh, who, as Director of Education for UNRWA/UNESCO, has also been responsible for providing education for half a million Palestinian refugee children in the Middle East.

There are readings from the works of Charles Dickens, Chalotte Bronte and poet Carl Dennis, and music is provided by Carl Orff, Aaron Copland and Japanese Taiko drummer Joji Hirota.

The readers are Cyril Nri, Emma Pallant and Francis Cadder.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

A 7digital production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 15 Apr 2018 23:30
大象传媒 Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Carl Orff

    Rundadinella

    Performer: Tolzer Knabenchor, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden聽.
    • Carl Orff & Gunhild Keetman: Musica Poetica.

  • Willard Robison

    The Old School Teacher

    Performer: Frank Sinatra.
    • The Columbia Years 1943-52: The Complete Recordings.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    7 Konnyu gyermekkar (7 Easy Children's Choruses): No. 7. Zold Erdoben (In The Green Forest)

    Performer: Budapest Kodaly Zoltan Girls' Choir.
    • Bicinia Hungarica Tricinia (Complete).

  • Joji Hirota

    Hokkai

    Performer: JOJI HIROTA - Main Artist.
    • The Gate.

  • BLACK /LONDON聽

    TO SIR WITH LOVE

    Performer: LULU & SAMANTHA MUMBA聽.
    • TOGETHER.

  • Aaron Copland

    Symphony for Organ and Orchestra: II. Scherzo

    Performer: WAYNE MARSHALL聽.
    • Copland, A.: Red Pony Suite (The) / Music for the Theatre Suite / Symphony for Organ and Orchestra.

Readings

Title: Teacher Man
Author: Frank McCourt聽
Published by HarperOne

Interview with Kabir Skaikh


Title: Teachers
Author: Carl Dennis
Found in the Poetry Magazine


Title: Hard Times聽
Author: Charles Dickens
Published by Pearson Longman

Title: Civilization
Author: John Stuart Mill聽
Published by J W St Parker (1859)

Title: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Published by Penguin Classics

Title: 鈥楾he Power of Teachers鈥�
Author: Julius Nyerere
Found in 'Nyere on Education: Selected Essays and Speeches 1954-1998'
Published by HakiElimu, ed. Elieshi Lema, Marjorie Mbilinya and Rakesh Rajani

Broadcasts

  • Sun 15 Apr 2018 06:05
    大象传媒 Radio 4
  • Sun 15 Apr 2018 23:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4