Critical Pedagogy for Healing: Paths Beyond "Wellness," Toward a Soul Revival of Teaching and Learning

Synopsis

This is the first book to explicitly link healing and wellness practices with critical pedagogy. Bringing together scholars from Brazil, Canada, Malta and the USA, the chapters combine critical pedagogy and social justice education to reorient the conversation around wellness in teaching and learning. Working against white Eurocentric narratives of wellness in schools which focus on the symptoms, not the causes, of society's sickness, the authors argues for a "soul revival" of education which tackles, head on, the causes of dis-ease in society, from institutional racism, colonialism, xenophobia and patriarchy. The contributors provide fresh perspectives that address short-term goals of wellness alongside long-term goals of healing in schools and society by attending to underlying causes of social sickness. The chapters bridge theory and practice, bringing diverse historical and contemporary philosophical discussions around wellness into contact with concrete examples of the interconnections between wellness, education, and social justice. Examples of topics covered include: Buddhist practices for healing, Black liberation theology, hip hop pedagogy, anxiety and vulnerability, art therapy and story-telling.

Copyright:

1998

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781350192706

Related ISBNs:

9781350192676

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

12/31/21

Copyrighted By:

Wendell Berry, from the Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint Press.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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Edited by:

Tricia Kress

Edited by:

Christopher Emdin

Edited by:

Robert Lake