Pedagogies of kindness and respect : on the lives and education of children / P.L. Thomas, Paul R. Carr, Julie A. Gorlewski, Brad J. Porfilio, editors. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

"God damn it, you've got to be kind" / P.L. Thomas, Paul R. Carr, Julie Gorlewski, and Brad J. Porfilio -- Public Education and the Ethics of Care: Toward a Politics of Kindness? / Rachel K. Brickner -- Are We Educating Our Children Within a Culture of Care? / Michael Burger -- No Excuses for "No Excuses": Counternarratives and Student Agency Sharon M. Chubbuck and Brandon Buck -- Empathic Education for a Compassionate Nation: A Pedagogy of Kindness and Respect for Healing Educational Trauma Lee-Anne Gray -- Renewing the Confucian Tradition: Kindness and Respect in Children's Everyday Schooling Jiacheng Li and Mei Ni -- "When I explain it, you'll understand": Children's Voices on Educational Care Maria K. McKenna -- Prekindergarten Policy and Politics: Discursive (Inter)play on Readying the Ideal Learner Angela C. Passero, Carrie L. Gentner, and Vonzell Agosto -- Nurtured Nature: The Connection Between Care for The Experience of Caring Chiara D'Amore and Denise Mitten -- Love, learning and the arts Jane E. Dalton -- Aesthetic reading and historical empathy: humanizing approaches to "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / Jason L. Endacott, Christian Z. Goering, and Joseph E. O'Brien -- Re-storying "progress" through familial curriculum making: toward a husbandry of rooted lives Sarah Fischer -- Music education, character development, and advocacy: the philosophy of Schinichi Suzuki Karin S. Hendricks -- Tough kindness: reconciling student needs and interests in 1940s Black progressive high schools Craig Kridel -- Doodles, birds, and abstract words: the experience of caring Karinna Riddett-Moore -- No More Disrespect: Teaching All Students to Question Right and Wrong in History Laura J. Dull and Diana B. Turk -- Peace Education About the Lives of Children Candice C. Carter -- Acknowledging and Validating LGBT Identities: Toward a Pedagogy of Compassion A. Scott Henderson -- Reclaiming Kindness, Courage, and Compassionate Justice in Difficult Educational Times Ursula A. Kelly -- A Critical Pedagogy of Care and Respect: What Queer Literacy Pedagogy Can Teach Us About Education for Freedom Cammie Kim Lin -- Toward Pedagogies of "Senseless Kindness" in Critical Education Michalinos Zembylas, Robert Hattam, and Maija Lanas.

"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."--Publisher's description.

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