Forging an Educative Community: The Wisdom of Love, the Power of Understanding, and the Terror of It All (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, Vol 126)
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780820445656
Subjects: Elementary; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Elementary Education; Teaching; Education; Imagination in children; Storytelling; Study and teaching (Elementary; Toleration
Description: "Forging an Educative Community tells the story of a public school classroom, where relations are fostered to promote democratic participation within intellectual engagement. In forging an educative community, teacher and students develop relations of trust, sense-making, and compassionate imagination, which in turn engender a sense of belonging, all essential elements of an educative community. This book illustrates the challenges and barriers to forming such a community in classrooms, particularly the underside of a sense of belonging that carries with it a terror of being transformed - a terror that can subside only with a trust that belonging will not require us to give up who we are."--Jacket.