Skip to main content
Top of the Page
ACEL
Sign in
Create Account
Cart
Toggle search
Search
Toggle navigation
Search
Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice
Title: Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice
Author: Becky Thompson
Imagine a classroom that explores the twinned ideas of embodied teaching and a pedagogy of tenderness. Becky Thompson envisions such a curriculum--and a way of being--that promises to bring about a sea change in education.
Teaching with Tenderness follows in the tradition of bell hooks's Teaching to Transgress and Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, inviting us to draw upon contemplative practices (yoga, meditation, free writing, mindfulness, ritual) to keep our hearts open as we reckon with multiple injustices.
Teaching with tenderness makes room for emotion, offer a witness for experiences people have buried, welcomes silence, breath and movement, and sees justice as key to our survival. It allows us to rethink our relationship to grading, office hours, desks, and faculty meetings, sees paradox as a constant companion, moves us beyond binaries; and praises self and community care.
Tenderness examines contemporary challenges to teaching about race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, religion, and other hierarchies. It examines the ethical, emotional, political, and spiritual challenges of teaching power-laden, charged issues and the consequences of shifting power relations in the classroom and in the community.
Attention to current contributions in the areas of contemplative practices, trauma theory, multiracial feminist pedagogy, and activism enable us to envision steps toward a pedagogy of liberation. The book encourages active engagement and makes room for self-reflective learning, teaching, and scholarship.
ISBN: 9780252082702
Number Of Pages: 168
Published: 3rd August 2017
BT
Discounted member price:
40.00
Your price:
45.00
Must be between 0 and 1000000.
You could save
11.1%
Quantity:
Quantity is required.
Quantity must be a positive whole number.
You might also be interested in
Developing Resilience: A Cognitive-Behavioural...
Mindshift to a Better Place
Navigating Gender and Sexuality in the Classroom...
Teaching Primary Physical Education
Child and Adolescent Wellbeing and Violence...
Care in Education
The Elephant in the Staffroom
Nurturing Wellbeing Development in Education
Managing Teacher Workload: Work-Life Balance and...
School Made Easier: A Kid's Guide to Study...
Annual Conference
An engaging three-day event you won't want to miss.
Register Now
Back to Top
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
##LOC[Cancel]##