Teaching, Learning, and Loving: Reclaiming Passion in Educational Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415945151 ISBN 13: 9780415945158

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

Review:

"These insightful, heartfelt essays on teaching make for powerful reading. The authors write eloquently and they speak to educators at all levels of the system, from pre-school through university. This is a book for teachers, teacher educators, researchers on teaching, and, crucially, for policy makers and administrators suffering under current mandates that force them to forget and deny their own educational passion and commitment."
-David T. Hansen, author of "The Call to Teach and Director of the Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
"As calls to 'leave no child behind' sound in the halls of state power, this volume offers a more generative, though no less insistent, voice for the mostly lost but recoverable power of passion in education. These authors do not hesitate to see the many binding and disruptive energies of love in teaching and learning. "Teaching, Learning, and Loving is a hopeful, brave, disturbing, and brilliant book."
-A. G. Rud, Purdue University

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415945151
• ISBN 13: 9780415945158
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Liston Daniel P.