Gratitude in Education A Radical View
Teachers at all levels of education will find this book practical and inspiring as they read how other educators have engaged with challenges that reveal different dimensions of gratitude, and how some have discovered its relevance in gaining greater resi
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Gratitude in Education A Radical View
Kerry Howells University of Tasmania, Australia
SENSE PUBLISHERS ROTTERDAM/BOSTON/TAIPEI
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................... ix Chapter 1: Introduction ......................................................................................... 1 Why gratitude in education?............................................................................. 1 Why gratitude? ................................................................................................. 4 Why gratitude in education now? ..................................................................... 6 Lived experience as my field of inquiry .......................................................... 9 Chapter 2: A landscape of gratitude ..................................................................... 11 Leaders first?..................................................................................................... 11 Leading with grace ........................................................................................... 13 Are teachers hot or cold on gratitude? .............................................................. 14 Empirical research: What a relief! .................................................................... 18 Teachers’ gratitude before students’ gratitude? ................................................ 20 Learning from parents ...................................................................................... 21 The hope of gratitude ....................................................................................... 24 Seeing the landscape with new eyes ................................................................ 24 Chapter 3: Can’t we call it something else? .......................................................... 27 Let’s hide it ...................................................................................................... 27 Isn’t gratitude the same as being positive? ....................................................... 31 The essence of gratitude ................................................................................... 35 Objectifying gratitude .............
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