Teaching with Tenderness

Imagine a classroom that explores the twinned ideas of embodied teaching and a pedagogy of tenderness. Becky Thompson envisions such a curriculum--and a way of being--that promises to bring about a sea change in education.

Teaching with Tenderness follows in the tradition of bell hooks''s Teaching to Transgress and Paulo Freire''s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, inviting us to draw upon contemplative p...