Transcendent Teacher Learner Relationships: The Way of the Shamanic Teacher (Second Edition)

Now, more than ever, high quality relationships between teachers and learners are critical to deep meaningful learning and to the learner’s long-term success. Transcendent Teacher Learner Relationships: The Way of the Shamanic Teacher (Second Edition) explores the nature of the transcendent teacher learner relationship and precisely how such relationships of warmth, safety, mutual care, mutual respect and mutual trust are developed and maintained. Personal narratives from the classroom frontlines as well as the analysis contained herein provide a fresh outlook, a roadmap that leads to the most transformative relationships imaginable for teachers and learners.

Hunter O’Hara, Ed.D. (1992), West Virginia University, is a Professor of Education undergraduate and graduate studies at The University of Tampa, Florida, USA. Dr. O’Hara is an academic leader, having served as Chair of the Education Department at that university for eleven years. He has written and published over thirty articles in peer reviewed, scholarly journals.