Education, Reaching
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Ways of Being in Teaching Conversations and Reflections
Edited by Sean Wiebe, Ellyn Lyle, Peter R. Wright, Kimberly Dark, Mitchell McLarnon and Liz Day
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ISBN: 978-94-6351-090-5 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6351-091-2 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6351-092-9 (e-book)
Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Life Writing While Writing Life
vii
1. Living, Loving, and Dancing the Questions: A Pedagogy of Becoming Celeste Snowber
1
2. Loving Teaching John J. Guiney Yallop
7
3. A Bone of Contention Sean Wiebe
13
4. Authentic Teaching17 Helen Ferrara 5. Education, Reaching Kimberly Dark
25
6. Ways of Being, Belonging, and Becoming: Arts Practice, the Relational, and Cultural Learning Peter R. Wright
33
7. Silences and Stories: Honoring Voice and Agency in the College Classroom Debra Busman
47
8. Living Curricula: Teaching Conversations Karen Keifer-Boyd, Wanda B. Knight and Ann Holt
55
9. Place and Pedagogy Ellyn Lyle
65
10. Teachers as Cultural Translators: Beyond the Cultural Paradigm Peter Mbago Wakholi and Peter R. Wright
71
11. The Art of Teaching Rests in Connection John J. Guiney Yallop and Carmen Shields
87
12. A Teacher’s Credo: Confessions of a Faithful Agnostic Carl Leggo
v
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INTRODUCTION Life Writing While Writing Life
Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle… (Freire, 1970, p. 23) With contributors from North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Australasia, the phrase ‘Ways of Being’ celebrates differences in teaching styles, methods, and philosophies. What emerges in these differences can appear chaotic and messy. As editors, we have learned to be patient at these times and to resist the temptation to in this volume to reduce teaching to tidy boxes and neat platitudes that emphasize only our commonness. Engaging in discussion about our commonness and uncommonness both through the volume and in our discussions about it, we open ourselves to sharing practices and what has informed them in terms of those that have ‘worked’ and those that have not. As teachers, we have encountered failure and continue to learn to fail better, always hopeful of becoming as a work in progress. In this volume, we share our histories, our stories, our art, our poetry, and our human moments in all their tumultuousness and vulnerability. In these, our ways of bein
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