Education and Well-Being An Ontological Inquiry
This book explores how contemporary educational research and curriculum occlude the vital and enduring relationship between education and well-being. Beginning with the consequences of the reductive tendencies of educational research and moving through th
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Matthew D. Dewar
Education and Well-Being
Matthew D. Dewar
Education and Well-Being An Ontological Inquiry
Matthew D. Dewar Lake Forest High School Lake Forest IL, United States
ISBN 978-1-137-60275-6 ISBN 978-1-137-60276-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-60276-3
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Jim Magrini, you helped a dinosaur become a bird in a fortnight. I owe much to you.
PROLOGUE
The ominous drone of a low-flying helicopter reverberated throughout my classroom. I walked to the window and watched its flight pattern follow the railroad tracks across the street from the school. The site of the helicopter turned my stomach, and my hunch was confirmed a few moments later when the student with whom I was conferring joined me at the window and asked: “Do you think another one did it?” “It” referred to a few weeks before when a student, on his way to school, placed his backpack on the ground, walked under a railroad-crossing gate, and sat down on the tracks in front of a commuter train. A car full of his peers, waiting at the gate, watched the scene unfold in disbelief. “I don’t know,” I said. We stood silently at the window for a few moments. When another helicopter emerged on the horizon, I turned from the window and broke the silence: “Let’s get back to work.” A few hours later, I was informed by an email that, indeed, another student had taken his own life. He had walked out of the front doors of school, crossed the street, and laid down on the railroad tracks in front of another commuter train. As I entered class later that afternoon, sobs and cries filled the room. Some students stood in groups embracing each other, while others sat o
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