Suffering and the Intelligence of Love in the Teaching Life: In Light and in Darkness

ISBN-13: 9783030059576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 201 str.

Sean Steel; Amber Homeniuk

Spis treści

​1. Elemental, Keith Inman

2. Introduction: In Light and In Darkness, Sean Steel and Amber Homeniuk

3. Plato Killed a Moth in My Dream, Daniela Elza

4. Suffering and the Contemplative Gave, Sean Steel

5. On the Two Meanings of Suffering, James V. Schall

6. Oh, my dark companion..., John B. Lee

7. ode to the critic (or what was I trying to say?), Daniela Elza

8. Suffering and the Blues, Harry Manx

9. it: attempts at definition, Daniela Elza

10. What the Buddha Never Taught Me, Tim Ward

11. Giving back of the Giving, Kelley Aitken

12. Teaching Tiny Tim from my Tiny Tim Closet, Dorothy Ellen Palmer

13. Making Space: It's Okay to Clear Time for Yourself, Jenna Butler

14. Importance, Keith Inman

15. A Teacher's Night Song, Sean Steel

16. a shoreline to stand on, Daniela Elza

17. Living in the Shadow of what I Teach or rather, Learning from our Needs, Stefan Gillow Reynolds

18. beauty is embarassing, Daniela Elza

19. Never Quite Enough, Tom Flanagan

20. Why Students Don't Suffer, Lee Trepanier

21. The Drawing Lesson, Kelley Aitken

22. A Time to Weep and a Time to Laugh, Or, the Necessity of Suffering even as we live Happily Ever After, Dorothy Warner

23. Once in a Blue Moon, Christina Alise McDermott

O autorze

Sean Steel is former Lecturer and Sessional Instructor at the University of Calgary, Canada, Ambrose University College, Canada, and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada. He currently teaches public school.

Amber Homeniuk is an expressive arts therapist. Her writing appears in The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Numéro Cinq, and Windsor Review’s tribute to Alice Munro.

Blurb

“Insofar as the Greek dramaturge Aeschylus taught that ‘Suffering is our only teacher,’ it is highly relevant for teachers, and teachers-in-formation, to learn to better understand the nature of suffering in teaching itself. This book contains witness and testimony from teachers in many different walks and situations, providing a rich, revealing invitation to all of us teachers, young and old, to engage our difficulties creatively, both for ourselves and for those we are called to stand together with, colleagues and students alike. Highly recommended!” 
—David Geoffrey Smith, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada 

“The teachers’ interiority—the anxieties and joys that nourish (or deplete) their craft—is here, for the first time made the subject of sustained reflection. A groundbreaking collection!”
—Heinz-Dieter Meyer, Professor of Education, State University of New York, USA

This book shares insights drawn from the diverse voices of public school teachers, community outreach education workers, professors, writers, poets, artists, and musicians on suffering in school and the classroom. Teachers speak about their own encounters with and perceptions from suffering using critical-analytic textual works, as well as first-hand personally reflective accounts. By sharing their stories and reflections, the editors and contributors shed light upon the dark areas that often are not addressed in Teacher Training Programs, and that generally remain unaddressed and unacknowledged when well-established as professionals in the field of education..