Imagine a classroom that explores the twinned ideas of embodied
teaching and a pedagogy of tenderness. Becky Thompson envisions
such a curriculum--and a way of being--that promises to bring about
a sea change in education. Teaching with Tenderness follows in the
tradition of bell hooks's Teaching to Transgress and Paulo Freire's
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, inviting us to draw upon contemplative
practices (yoga, meditation, free writing, mindfulness, ritual) to
keep our hearts open as we reckon with multiple injustices.
Teaching with tenderness makes room for emotion, offers a witness
for experiences people have buried, welcomes silence, breath and
movement, and sees justice as key to our survival. It allows us to
rethink our relationship to grading, office hours, desks, and
faculty meetings, sees paradox as a constant companion, moves us
beyond binaries; and praises self and community care. Tenderness
examines contemporary challenges to teaching about race, gender,
class, nationality, sexuality, religion, and other hierarchies. It
examines the ethical, emotional, political, and spiritual
challenges of teaching power-laden, charged issues and the
consequences of shifting power relations in the classroom and in
the community. Attention to current contributions in the areas of
contemplative practices, trauma theory, multiracial feminist
pedagogy, and activism enable us to envision steps toward a
pedagogy of liberation. The book encourages active engagement and
makes room for self-reflective learning, teaching, and scholarship.
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