Teaching as If Life Matters The Promise of a New Education Culture

Name: Teaching as If Life Matters The Promise of a New Education Culture
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ISBN: 9781421400396

ISBN-10: 1421400391

ISBN-13: 9781421400396

Edition: 2011

Authors: Christopher Uhl, Dana L. Stuchul

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What would it be like to teach as if life matters? To move beyond the typical regimen of classroom exercises, homework, and standardized tests and to guide students through life's most important lessons? Dissatisfied with traditional educational models, Christopher Uhl and Dana L. Stuchul asked themselves these same questions. What they discovered will open the eyes of today's educators to a whole new way of teaching.The authors promote an approach that fosters self-knowledge, creativity, curiosity, and an appreciation for the earth. Central to their philosophy is one question -- "What do we humans need to live meaningful lives?" The answer: healthy relationships with ourselves, each other,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Gratitudes


Prologue



Teaching as if Life Doesn't Matter: Where We Went Wrong



We Are Not Just Brains on a Stick: Relationship with Our Feeling Bodies



Loving the Questions: Relationship with Our Minds



Seeing Ourselves with New Eyes: Relationship with Self



Cultivating Classroom Kinship: Relationship with the Human Other



We Are Expressions of Everything: Relationship with Earth and the Cosmos


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index