Understanding Suffering in Schools: Shining a Light on the Dark Places of Education

2024 Recipient of The Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award!

Drawing inspiration from Dr. Willi Schohaus’s classic text The Dark Places of Education, this book contributes to the discussion by defining suffering in schools and providing a survey of the American school system’s inadequacies in the early twenty-first century.

Through testimonies from former students on the ways they experienced suffering in school, this volume demonstrates how suffering can profoundly affect...