Full Description
Pedagogies of Kindness and Respect presents a wide variety of concepts from scholars and practitioners who discuss pedagogies of kindness, an alternative to the «no excuses» ideology now dominating the way that children are raised and educated in the U.S. today. The fields of education, and especially early childhood education, include some histories and perspectives that treat those who are younger with kindness and respect. This book demonstrates an informed awareness of this history and the ways that old and new ideas can counter current conditions that are harmful to both those who are younger and those who are older, while avoiding the reconstitution of the romantic, innocent child who needs to be saved by more advanced adults. Two interpretations of the upbringing of children are investigated and challenged, one suggesting that the poor do not know how to raise their children and thus need help, while the other looks at those who are privileged and therefore know how to nurture their young. These opposing views have been discussed and problematized for more than thirty years. Pedagogies of Kindness and Respect investigates the issue of why this circumstance has continued and even worsened today.
Contents
Contents: P. L. Thomas/Paul R. Carr/Julie Gorlewski/Brad J. Porfilio: «God damn it, you've got to be kind.» - Theoretical Framework - Rachel K. Brickner: Public Education and the Ethics of Care: Toward a Politics of Kindness? - Michael Burger: Are We Educating Our Children Within a Culture of Care? - Sharon M. Chubbuck/Brandon Buck: No Excuses for «No Excuses»: Counternarratives and Student Agency - Lee-Anne Gray: Empathic Education for a Compassionate Nation: A Pedagogy of Kindness and Respect for Healing Educational Trauma - Jiacheng Li/Mei Ni: Renewing the Confucian Tradition: Kindness and Respect in Children's Everyday Schooling - Maria K. McKenna: «When I explain it, you'll understand»: Children's Voices on Educational Care - Angela C. Passero/Carrie L. Gentner/Vonzell Agosto: Prekindergarten Policy and Politics: Discursive (Inter)play on Readying the Ideal Learner - Chiara D'Amore/Denise Mitten: Nurtured Nature: The Connection Between Care for The Experience of Caring - Laura J. Dull/Diana B. Turk: No More Disrespect: Teaching All Students to Question Right and Wrong in History - Candice C. Carter: Peace Education About the Lives of Children - A. Scott Henderson: Acknowledging and Validating LGBT Identities: Toward a Pedagogy of Compassion - Ursula A. Kelly: Reclaiming Kindness, Courage, and Compassionate Justice in Difficult Educational Times - Cammie Kim Lin: A Critical Pedagogy of Care and Respect: What Queer Literacy Pedagogy Can Teach Us About Education for Freedom - Michalinos Zembylas/Robert Hattam/Maija Lanas: Toward Pedagogies of «Senseless Kindness» in Critical Education.
