Speaking Up: Using a Pedagogy of Love to Debunk Technical Teaching and Learning Practices
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-miami13118189562021-08-03T05:41:25Z Speaking Up: Using a Pedagogy of Love to Debunk Technical Teaching and Learning Practices Ciamarra, Daniel J. Educational Leadership love compassion empathy relationality pedaogy <p>At present, our students are valued for their capacities to thoughtlessly absorb and regurgitate standardized facts and figures. Meanwhile, the affective facets of schooling, such as love, relationality, compassion, acceptance, integrity, and altruism are overlooked by politicians and educational decision makers, who claim these elements lack academic rigor. In this study, I use the dominant views of the educational elect to accentuate the current push for a more standardized, accountable, and scientific approach to schooling. Then, I employ the counternarrative as a methodological tool for talking back, offering up personal stories and experiences that frame the power of agapic love to demystify the normative views of schooling. More specifically, I employ personal narrative as means for providing teachers a voice, one which aims to debunk confounding generalizations or refute common claims about what education is or ought to be. Finally, I analyze the divergent stories through multiple theoretic and practical lenses in order to make meaning of my experiences.</p><p>Moreover, the counternarratives in this study focus on how agapic love can be utilized in pedagogical and curricular efforts to transcend the present conditions that hinder many students and teachers from being and becoming who they really are. These personal narratives of love, relationality, compassion, empathy, passion, selflessness, and more, are used to counter that which have become accepted as good teaching and learning practices. In essence, the personal counterstories are used to give a firsthand account, direct from the frontlines and sidelines, of what it means to be a teacher, how our learning communities are being affected by educational initiatives such as “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top,” and how agapic love can be used as a tool for debunking the presently legitimized scientific aims of schooling.</p> 2011-08-03 English text Miami University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1311818956 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1311818956 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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