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Book We Want to Do More Than Survive

Download or read book We Want to Do More Than Survive written by Bettina L. Love and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

Book Legacy of Love

Download or read book Legacy of Love written by Arun Gandhi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in 1934 in South Africa, where he was subject to the daily injustices of apartheid, and raised in a family dedicated to nonviolent social reform, Dr. Gandhi writes with rare authority and insight. His narrative draws primarily upon the experiences as a youth in India, where he lived with his grandfather during the last eighteen months of the Mahatma's life.

Book Relationship Rich Education

Download or read book Relationship Rich Education written by Peter Felten and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, the book is an invitation—and a challenge—for faculty, administrators, and student life staff to move relationships from the periphery to the center of undergraduate education.

Book Higher Education and Love

Download or read book Higher Education and Love written by Victoria de Rijke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explicitly unites the concepts of higher education and love to examine how these concepts are mutually compatible. As the world of higher education moves towards the metrics of value, and the worth of knowledge becomes more valued in its use rather than its discovery, a crisis brews. If higher education is to contribute to the wellbeing of the self and of others, then the institution needs to be radically reviewed to see if, and how, love contributes to higher education within and beyond its walls. This book addresses the core question of what would the university might be like, today and into the future, if the timeless notion of love was the basis of its educative process, notwithstanding the material artefacts the university helps to create, but also as a way of framing approaches to higher education.

Book The Book that Made Me

Download or read book The Book that Made Me written by Judith Ridge and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.

Book Old World Daughter  New World Mother  An Education in Love and Freedom

Download or read book Old World Daughter New World Mother An Education in Love and Freedom written by Maria Laurino and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to discuss feminism through the prism of ethnic identity, the author of "Were You Always an Italian?" brews an unusual and affirming blend of contemporary and traditional values, in this warm, smart, and witty personal investigation of ethnicity and womanhood.

Book To Know as We Are Known

    Book Details:
  • Author : Parker J. Palmer
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2010-06-22
  • ISBN : 0062010794
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book To Know as We Are Known written by Parker J. Palmer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.

Book Love  Justice  and Education

Download or read book Love Justice and Education written by William H. Schubert and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, Justice, and Education by William H. Schubert brings to life key ideas in the work of John Dewey and their relevance for the world today. He does this by imagining continuation of a highly evocative article that Dewey published in the New York Times in 1933. Dewey wrote from the posture of having visited Utopia. Schubert begins each of thirty short chapters with a phrase or sentence from Dewey's article, in response to which a continuous flow of Utopians consider what is necessary for educational and social reform among Earthlings. Schubert encourages the Utopians, who have studied Earthling practices and literatures, to recommend from their experience what Earthlings need for educational and social reform and how they can address obstacles to that reform. The Utopians speak to myriad implications of Dewey's report by drawing upon a wide range of philosophical, literary, and educational ideas - including many of Dewey's other writings. Their central message is that loving relationships and empathic dedication to social justice are necessary for educational reform that responds wholeheartedly to learner needs and interests. True to Dewey's original position, such education must be built upon social reform that works to overcome acquisitive society based on greed: the principal impediment to realizing human potential, democratic society, and educational relationships that enhance it. To overcome the debilitating acquisitiveness that plagues Earth is the challenge for educators and all human beings who seek to involve the young in composing their lives and cultivating a world of integrity, beauty, justice, love, and continuously evolving capacities of humanity.

Book Teaching with Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa S. Goldstein
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Teaching with Love written by Lisa S. Goldstein and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers commonly talk about loving their students, yet no effort has been made to explore the powerful educational potential inherent in these loving feelings. Teaching with Love breaks new ground by paying careful, scholarly attention to the nature, the scope, the dimensions, and the variety of teacherly love. In a highly readable narrative that builds on the feminist notion of an ethic of care and draws from the fields of psychology and women's studies, this book examines and analyzes the experiences of two primary grade teachers as they set about trying to create and enact a vision of early childhood education centered around loving relationships.

Book The Course of Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alain de Botton
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-06-14
  • ISBN : 1501134434
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Course of Love written by Alain de Botton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought” (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership. We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as “happily ever after.” The Course of Love explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. We see, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy—an annotation and a guide to what we are reading. As The New York Times says, “The Course of Love is a return to the form that made Mr. de Botton’s name in the mid-1990s….love is the subject best suited to his obsessive aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes, methods, and insecurities to the page.” This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term. The result is a sensory experience—fictional, philosophical, psychological—that urges us to identify deeply with these characters and to reflect on his and her own experiences in love. Fresh, visceral, and utterly compelling, The Course of Love is a provocative and life-affirming novel for everyone who believes in love. “There’s no writer alive like de Botton, and his latest ambitious undertaking is as enlightening and humanizing as his previous works” (Chicago Tribune).

Book Peace Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nel Noddings
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-11-14
  • ISBN : 1139503960
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Peace Education written by Nel Noddings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a huge volume of work on war and its causes, most of which treats its political and economic roots. In Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War, Nel Noddings explores the psychological factors that support war: nationalism, hatred, delight in spectacles, masculinity, religious extremism and the search for existential meaning. She argues that while schools can do little to reduce the economic and political causes, they can do much to moderate the psychological factors that promote violence by helping students understand the forces that manipulate them.

Book Why Kids Love  and Hate  School

Download or read book Why Kids Love and Hate School written by Steven P. Jones and published by Myers Education Press. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some students enter classrooms with an “I dare you try to teach me” look on their faces, and others bounce into class excited to learn and anxious to please the teacher. We know we can’t automatically blame teachers or schools when students don’t want to learn. But we also know that sometimes teachers and schools don’t always set students up for success, and they don’t always help them love what they’re learning. Why Kids Love (and Hate) School: Reflections on Practice investigates some of the school and classroom practices that help students love school—and some that send students in the opposite direction. Intended for classroom teachers, teacher education students, and school administrators, chapters in the book investigate a variety of topics: how schools can build effective school cultures, the “struggle” students encounter in learning, practices of other countries that help students love school, testing practices that cause students to hate school—and much more. Perfect for courses in: Introduction to Education, General Methods, Management/Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Administration/Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Curriculum Theory, Curriculum Development.

Book For the Love of Language

Download or read book For the Love of Language written by Kate Burridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics is an engaging introduction to human language and the role of linguistics in understanding its fundamental design, acquisition and functions. Replete with case studies and examples from Australia, New Zealand and around the world, this text offers a thorough introduction to core topics, including the structure and meaning of words, the systems that organise language, strategies for learning about language, the evolution of language and the function of language as a complex social resource. The second edition includes extensive new content across the entire text, including the areas of orthography, syntax, corpus linguistics, language acquisition and multilingualism. Each topic is accompanied by a wide array of pedagogical resources designed to consolidate student understanding, including examples and exercises. Each chapter ends with a research project, providing readers with an opportunity to build on fundamental skills and engage more thoroughly with each topic.

Book The Love of Learning and the Desire for God

Download or read book The Love of Learning and the Desire for God written by Jean Leclercq and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Education in Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marteeka Karland
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2013-12
  • ISBN : 9781304693105
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book An Education in Love written by Marteeka Karland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duff has it bad for his son's first grade teacher. How messed up is that? But the woman is just so full of life and passion, he can't help but be drawn to her. Giving so much of herself to her students is only one reason the town's most eligible bachelor is after the chocolate beauty. Duff knows in his heart, this is the woman for him. And he's out to prove it to her. Loralei is mostly conservative, reserved in her thoughts and actions. Unfortunately, the sinfully handsome Duff is more than she can resist. She knows it's probably improper for her to date the father of one of her students, but when she looks in to those mesmerizing green eyes, she's lost. Now, if only little Duffie hadn't mentioned his father intended on marrying Loralei, things might have gone well...

Book Love School

    Book Details:
  • Author : REV Tony K Thomas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-06-02
  • ISBN : 9781973691051
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Love School written by REV Tony K Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time when the Rev. Tony K. Thomas had no idea how to develop a lasting and healthy relationship. Like many others, he would see everyone else's faults but not his own - and then wonder why his relationships didn't last. There were also times when he was rushing singleness by being in love with the idea of no longer being single. Then after a ground zero experience in relationship failure, while at this lowest moments in heartache and despair, he sought the Lord for help. While at this low-point, the Spirit of Love told him: "This time, I will not only heal and fix you, but others." He was enrolled into Love School to learn about love from God's perspective. In this book, the author follows up on his two earlier books about love, sharing what he's learned by obeying the Lord and asking Him for help. Learn how to: - develop a real and lasting relationship with someone special; - look for answers within instead of from someone else; - learn the purpose of dating where there are no losers - become more loving and lovable - learn love from a divine perspective Throughout the book, you will discover that God's Word is full of love stories and lessons that are still practical today. Rediscover the source of love that comes from our Heavenly Father and transform your love life by enrolling in Love School.

Book For the Love of Education  The Power of an Awakened Mind

Download or read book For the Love of Education The Power of an Awakened Mind written by Omar Simpson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: