Table of Contents
Introduction: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."
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P. L.Thomas, Paul R. Carr, Julie Gorlewski, and Brad J. Porfilio, editors
Section One: Theoretical Framework
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Chapter One: Public Education and the Ethics of Care:
Toward a Politics of Kindness?
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Rachel K. Brickner
ChapterTwo: Are We Educating Our Children Within a Culture of Care?
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Michael Burger
Chapter Three: No Excuses for "No Excuses":
Counternarratives and Student Agency
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Sharon M. Chubbuck and Brandon Buck
Chapter Four: Empathic Education for a Compassionate Nation:
A Pedagogy of Kindness and Respect for Healing
Educational Trauma
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Lee-Anne Gray
Section Two: Pedagogies of Kindness and Children
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Chapter Five: Renewing the Confucian Tradition: Kindness and
Respect in Children's Everyday Schooling
Jiacheng Li and Mei Ni
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Chapter Six: "When I explain it, you'll understand":
Children's Voices on Educational Care
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Maria K. McKenna
Chapter Seven: Prekindergarten Policy and Politics:
Discursive (Inter)play on Readying the Ideal Learner
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Angela C. Passero, Carrie L. Gentner, and Vonzell Agosto
Chapter Eight: Nurtured Nature: The Connection Between Care for
Children and Care for the Environment
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Chiara D'Amore and Denise Mitten
Section Three: Curricular Dimensions of the Pedagogies of Kindness
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Chapter Nine: Love, Learning, and the Arts
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Jane E. Dalton
Chapter Ten: Aesthetic Reading and Historical Empathy:
Humanizing Approaches to "Letter From Birmingham Jail"
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Jason L. Endacott, Christian Z. Goering, and Joseph E. O'Brien
Chapter Eleven: Re-Storying"Progress"Through Familial Curriculum
Making: Toward a Husbandry of Rooted Lives
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Sarah Fischer
Chapter Twelve: Music Education, Character Development,
and Advocacy: The Philosophy of Shinichi Suzuki
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Karin S. Hendricks
Chapter Thirteen: Tough Kindness: Reconciling Student
Needs and Interests in 1940s Black Progressive High Schools
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Craig Kridel
Chapter Fourteen: Doodles, Birds, and Abstract Words:
The Experience of Caring
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Karinna Riddett-Moore
Chapter Fifteen: No More Disrespect:Teaching All Students to
Question Right and Wrong in History
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Laura J. Dull and Diana B.Turk
Section Four: The Political Economy of the Pedagogies of Kindness
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Chapter Sixteen: Peace Education About the Lives of Children
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Candice C. Carter
Chapter Seventeen: Acknowledging and Validating LGBT Identities:
Toward a Pedagogy of Compassion
A. Scott Henderson
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Chapter Eighteen: Reclaiming Kindness, Courage, and Compassionate
Justice in Difficult Educational Times
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Ursula A. Kelly
Chapter Ninteen: A Critical Pedagogy of Care and Respect: What Queer
Literacy Pedagogy Can Teach Us About Education for Freedom
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Cammie Kim Lin
Chapter Twenty:Toward Pedagogies of "Senseless
Kindness"in Critical Education
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Michalinos Zembylas, Robert Hattam, and Maija Lanas
Author Biographies
Index
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