Teaching, Learning, and Loving

This book explores emotional aspects of daily educational practice all too often overlooked by theorists and education researchers, but well known to practitioners. These include such topics as eros, the pursuit of happiness, critical hope, vulnerability, mystery, and domestic tranquility. The contributors also examine grief, despair, discomfort, acceptance of ignorance, and loss of hope. While they explore regions outside the bounds of the explicit, cognitive, and categorical, their motivations are familiar: the desire to create hope, meaning, and mutual understanding in the pursuit of better classrooms, more equitable education, and more effective teacher education.

I. Introduction: Love Revived and Examined, Daniel Liston and Jim Garrison Part I: Loving Gaps and Loving Practices 1. The Love Gap in the Educational Text, Jane Roland Martin 2. Loving Teacher Education, List S. Goldstein 3. Creating Loving Relations in the Classroom, Elaine J. O'Quinn and Jim Garrison 4. Tales In and Out of School, Michael Dale Part II: Love, Injustice, Teaching, and Learning 5. Eros, Pedagogy, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Kerry Burch 6. The Lure of Beauty and the Pain of Injustice in Learning and Teaching, Daniel Liston 7. Teaching for Hope: The Ethics of Shattering World Views, Megan Boler Part III: Love's Losses and Love Regained 8. Grief as a Gateway to Love in Teaching, Rachael Kessler 9. The Place of Reparation: Love, Loss, Ambivalence, and Teaching, Ursula A. Kelly 10. The Search for Wise Love in Education: What Can We Learn from the Brahmaviharas? Ann Diller