Death in the Classroom

Writing about Love and Loss

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

1 239 kr

Tillfälligt slut

Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.In Death in the Classroom, Jeffrey Berman writes about Love and Loss, the course that he designed and taught two years after his wife's death, in which he explored with his students the literature of bereavement. Berman, building on his previous courses that emphasized self-disclosing writing, shows how his students wrote about their own experiences with love and loss, how their writing affected classmates and teacher alike, and how writing about death can lead to educational and psychological breakthroughs. In an age in which eighty percent of Americans die not in their homes but in institutions, and in which, consequently, the living are separated from the dying, Death in the Classroom reveals how reading, writing, and speaking about death can play a vital role in a student's education.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-01-08
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor301
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791476314

Tillhör följande kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sorghantering inom Hälsa och familj

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Getting Started2. Writing an Obituary3. Writing a Eulogy4. On Teaching the Book of Job—and Being Denounced as a"False Prophet"5. Writing on Religion and Death6. Cathy’s Letter to Her Deceased Mother in Wuthering Heights7. A Problem with Another Student, and Evaluating the Evaluator8. Ten Things to Do before I Die9. Writing about Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide10. Writing about Jeff’s Former Students in Empathic Teaching11. A Teacher’s Self-EulogyAppendix A: "Helping or Harming Students?" Richard BowerAppendix B: "Writing Has Saved My Life," Breanna’s StoryAppendix C: "Literature, If Anything, Will Save Me,"Sara E. MurphyAppendix D: English 226: Love and Loss in Literature and LifeWorks CitedStudent WritersIndex

"…[an] inspired and inspiring book." — Metapsychology"This intensely personal, reflective work tackles emotionally charged subjects—love and loss—with sensitivity and grace … Engaging and provocative, this is a book for students and teachers of composition." — CHOICE"Death in the Classroom deals with an extremely important topic—our attitudes toward death and grieving and the possibility of helping students, through reading, writing, and classroom discussion, to reflect on death and grieving in their own and others' lives. I like the book's clarity and the vigor of its argument for death education in the university classroom. This is a book for teachers, especially teachers of literature and life writing who are committed to teaching literature from an ethical and experiential perspective, and it will also appeal to those interested in death education and attitudes toward death and dying, particularly in North America." — Hilary Clark, editor of Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark