A Curriculum of Kindness: (Re) Creating and Nurturing Heart and Mind through Teaching and Learning
In this paper, we share stories of experience that focus on our belief that offering kindness as a key ingredient in teaching and learning provides a solid foundation for personal connection and sustained meaning-making. We highlight our past experience with teachers who provided us with caring and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brock University
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and Practice |
| Online Access: | http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/brocked/home/article/view/88 |
| Summary: | In this paper, we share stories of experience that focus on our belief that offering kindness as a key ingredient in teaching and learning provides a solid foundation for personal connection and sustained meaning-making. We highlight our past experience with teachers who provided us with caring and kindness and using a narrative process of recovering and reconstructing meaning, we move forward in time to describe how we now enact kindness in our own relationship and our work with students and clients in our present day practice as professor and counselor. |
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| ISSN: | 1183-1189 |