Teaching with Love: A Feminist Approach to Early Childhood Education

by Lisa S. Goldstein

Overview

Teachers commonly talk about loving their students, yet no effort has been made to explore the powerful educational potential inherent in these loving feelings. Teaching with Love breaks new ground by paying careful, scholarly attention to the nature, the scope, the dimensions, and the variety of teacherly love. In a highly readable narrative that builds on the feminist notion of an ethic of care and draws from the fields of psychology and women's studies, this book examines and analyzes the experiences of two primary grade teachers as they set about trying to create and enact a vision of early childhood education centered around loving relationships.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820434810
Publisher:	Lang, Peter Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/01/1997
Series:	Rethinking Childhood Series , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1210L (what's this?)

About the Author

The Author: Lisa S. Goldstein is an assistant professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches in the Early Childhood Education and the Curriculum Studies programs. She received her Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University, and is a former primary grade teacher.

What People are Saying About This

Nel Noddings

This beautifully written book is not afraid to speak of love in connection with teaching. It speaks also of the delicate nature of professional interactions and healthy differences in the ways good teachers approach teaching. Bold and stimulating. From Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education School of Education, Stanford University

Editorial Reviews

This beautifully written book is not afraid to speak of love in connection with teaching. It speaks also of the delicate nature of professional interactions and healthy differences in the ways good teachers approach teaching. Bold and stimulating. (Nel Noddings, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education, School of Education, Stanford University)
Teaching with love brings feminism and young children together and has the potential to inform early childhood education and feminist thought and theory. An import scholarly work on a complex issue, this book should be read by teacher educators, students, educational practitioners, and those interested in women's studies. All academic collections. (K.I. Case, Choice)

From the Publisher

Goldstein (early childhood education, U. of Texas-Austin) discusses the theory and principle of teaching with love, provides a portrait of a talented K-1-2 teacher and the author's co-teaching project, and explores the sometimes conflicted relations between teachers and mothers, emphasizing throughout her own extensive experiences with teaching. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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