Drawing inspiration from Dr. Willi Schohaus’s classic text The Dark Places of Education, this book contributes to the discussion by defining suffering in schools and providing a survey of the American school system’s inadequacies in the early twenty-first century.
Through testimonies from former students on the ways they experienced suffering in school, this volume demonstrates how suffering can profoundly affect one’s academic growth and development—or worse. By analyzing the findings within a multidisciplinary ethical and educational framework, this volume presents a moral vision for understanding the role that suffering plays in school.
Drawing on research in medicine, psychology, social sciences, religion, and education, this text weaves together many strands of thinking about suffering. This book is essential reading for academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of educational leadership, foundations of education, and those interested in both the history of education and critical contemporary accounts of schooling.
Author(s): Joseph Polizzi, William C. Frick
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 158
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Contributions to Suffering Based on Critical Contemporary Accounts of Schooling
Introduction
Situating Suffering in School Life
Some Contemporary Causes of Suffering in School
Engagement, Well-Being, and Happiness
Terminology of Suffering and Well-Being
Suffering and Student Voice
Leading in Response to Suffering
References
Chapter 2: Willi Schohaus and the Shadow over the School: Suffering Then…
Introduction
Context of Education in Switzerland Early 1900s
Willi Schohaus
Pedagogical Ideals and Practices
Aesthetic Education
Publication of Shadow over the School
Themes of Suffering in The Dark Places of Education
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Understanding Suffering for Educators
Medicine
Psychology
Religion and Philosophy
Christianity
Judaism
Buddhism
Social Sciences
Education
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Study Description
Research Questions
Researcher Ethics
Methods
Participant Sampling
Engagement with Participants
The Interview Setting
Transcription
Survey Data Collection and Management
Analysis
References
Chapter 5: Voices of Lament and Suffering in School: Suffering Now…
The Reports
I Affront to Personhood/Injury to Dignity
II Anxiety, Stress, and Fear
III Companionship and Isolation
IV Personal, Cultural, and Social Identity
V Lateral Violence (Harassment, Discrimination, and Bullying)
VI Educator Indiscretion, Impropriety, and Transgression
VII Corporeal Disaffection—Physicality
VIII Struggles with Learning
IX Solicitude
References
Chapter 6: Interpretations and Discussion
Affront to Personhood/Injury to Dignity
Anxiety, Stress, and Fear
Companionship and Isolation
Personal, Cultural, and Social Identity
Lateral Violence, Bullying and Discrimination
Educator Indiscretion, Impropriety, and Transgression
Corporeal Disaffection/Physicality
Struggles with Learning
Solicitude
Categorical Themes and the Literature
From Perpetrating Suffering to Complicity in Suffering
Suffering’s Continuum
Suffering and Moral Injury
The Institutionalized School and the Education Workers Who Occupy It
A Path Forward
References
Chapter 7: Concluding Thoughts on Suffering in School [Epilogue]
References
Index
