Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice (Transformations: Womanist studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 025204116X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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As she shows, teaching with tenderness encourages us to truly listen to one another; makes room for emotion and uncomfortable perspectives; and welcomes silence, breathing, and movement. Becky Thompson envisions such a curriculum ”and a way of being ”that promises to bring about a sea change in education. Thompson's pedagogy of tenderness encompasses a student's whole self, helping the individual to merge mind, body, spirit, and emotions to achieve true understanding. The patience and mindful attentiveness that emerges spurs students to achieve great work drawn from their best selves. Imagine a classroom that explores th
Thompson's experience is deep and her exposition infinitely subtle. "In bold and lyrical prose, Becky Thompson offers a practical model for embodied teaching, for a classroom where painful realities like genocide, slavery, colonization, and rape culture can become the subject of fearless ”or fear transcending ”study. This is how the word is used in my own (Quaker) tradition, as (to paraphrase Adrienne Rich) an 'instrument to touch the wound beyond the wound.' And, as an experienced yoga teacher, she invites the body and its