Overview
- Provokes and deepens reader engagement with central concerns and experiences related to suffering in the teaching life
- Explores insights teachers have gleaned from dealing with social-political factors that have rendered educational tasks problematic
- Examines questions about the meaning and nature of suffering in relation to the teaching life, the sources of suffering, and the meaning of suffering in relation to the contemplative awareness of goodness, truth, and beauty in teaching life
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Analyses of the Meaning of Suffering in Teaching
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Suffering and the Long View: Wisdom Through Experience
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East-Meets-West: Finding Rhythms and Articulating Meaning in Suffering
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Teaching, Limitations, and Marginalization in Suffering
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About this book
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 even as teachers become well-established as professionals in the field of education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Suffering and the Intelligence of Love in the Teaching Life
Book Subtitle: In Light and In Darkness
Editors: Sean Steel, Amber Homeniuk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05958-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05957-6Published: 26 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05958-3Published: 15 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 201
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Psychology, Educational Philosophy