The book explores aspects of daily educational practice all too often overlooked by theorists and educational researchers in the US, although well known to practitioners. These include such topics as eros, the pursuit of happiness, critical hope, vulnerability, mystery and domestic tranquillity - topics that are almost never the subject of educational research. They also include grief, despair, discomfort, acceptance of ignorance and loss of hope. The authors explore regions outside the bounds of the explicit, cognitive and categorical. Their motivations, however are familiar; they include the desire to create hope, meaning and mutual understanding in the pursuit of better classrooms, more equitable education, and more effective teacher education. They help map for educational researchers and theorists terrain that is familiar to, but sometimes not articulated by, practitioners.
Author(s): Daniel Liston
Edition: 1
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 224
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Love Revived......Page 8
Love Examined......Page 13
Eros......Page 15
Agape......Page 18
Philia......Page 19
Romantic Love......Page 21
PART 1 Loving Gaps and Loving Practices......Page 24
Introduction......Page 27
The Strange Fate of Home and Family in the History of Educational Thought......Page 28
Why the Gap in the Text?......Page 32
The Difference a Gap Makes......Page 35
Introduction......Page 41
Three Cornerstones of Loving Teacher Education......Page 43
Cornerstone 1: Commitment......Page 44
Cornerstone 2: Intimacy-in-Community......Page 46
Cornerstone 3: Passion......Page 49
A Few Closing Thoughts......Page 52
CHAPTER 3 Creating Loving Relations in the Classroom......Page 54
Three Dangers to Creating Loving Relations in the Classroom......Page 59
The Complexities of Conditioning a Classroom for Loving Relation......Page 61
The Creation of Shared Meaning......Page 64
Creating an Ethos of Love, Not an Economy of Results......Page 67
CHAPTER 4 Tales In and Out of School......Page 69
A Blinding Story......Page 70
Literary Sight......Page 76
Student Stories......Page 79
Educational Longings......Page 83
PART 2 Love, Injustice, Teaching, and Learning......Page 86
Introduction: America the Beautiful?......Page 89
Eros and the Reconstruction of Common Sense......Page 91
The Erotic Foundations of Liberatory Pedagogy......Page 92
Eros and Lincoln’s Apple of Gold; or, How to Remap the Nation......Page 95
Public Education, Democratic Amplitude, and the Inalienable Right to the Pursuit of Happiness.......Page 97
Introduction......Page 105
Libraries, Ponds, and Streams......Page 107
Getting Critical......Page 111
Experience and Emotions Ignored......Page 115
Listening To and Learning From Our Emotions......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 120
CHAPTER 7 Teaching For Hope......Page 121
A Pedagogy of Discomfort......Page 124
Impasse: Resistance and Suffering......Page 127
An Unexpected Shifting......Page 130
Beyond Discomfort: Critical Hope......Page 132
Making Up for the Loss......Page 134
Conclusion......Page 135
PART 3 Love’s Losses and Love Regained......Page 137
Introduction......Page 140
Why Should Educators Deal with Grief?......Page 141
Searching for a Model......Page 143
Shock......Page 144
Denial......Page 146
Moving into Feeling......Page 147
Anger......Page 148
Fear......Page 149
Sadness......Page 150
Healing......Page 152
Endings and Returns: Using this Model......Page 153
Commemorate......Page 154
Conclusion: On to Hope and Love......Page 155
Beginning Places......Page 157
Making Reparation......Page 158
The Place of Reparation......Page 162
Teaching as Reparative......Page 167
New Reparations: Grievous Lea(r)nings......Page 170
CHAPTER 10 The Search for Wise Love in Education......Page 172
The Four Brahmaviharas......Page 174
Implications for Love in Education......Page 179
Working with the Obstacles......Page 181
Afterword......Page 188
Endnotes......Page 190
Bibliography......Page 206
Contributors......Page 216
Index......Page 219
