A Case for Kindness
A New Look at the Teaching Ethic
Will be published approx. on 30. July 2019
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-1-9755-0200-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Simple acts of kindness" are not so simple. Broidy argues both for the complexity of kindness in action, and for the value of an approach to teachers' relationship with their students and other clients that is rooted in a "sensibility of kindness." Broidy's case for kindness begins by disentangling the concept of kindness from its many near relations. He traces the role of kindness and related concepts in both American educational history and in modern organizations promoting their versions of kindness.
Broidy explores the ways we decide ethical questions, focusing on the complex of perceptions, emotions, dispositions, and priorities that form our ethical sensibilities. He argues that a sensibility oriented toward kindness is the best foundation for a teaching ethic; and shows how new and working teachers can develop and employ such a teaching ethic.
Finally, he connects a kindness-oriented teaching ethic to the societal need to maintain and develop a long-term democratic ideal.
Broidy explores the ways we decide ethical questions, focusing on the complex of perceptions, emotions, dispositions, and priorities that form our ethical sensibilities. He argues that a sensibility oriented toward kindness is the best foundation for a teaching ethic; and shows how new and working teachers can develop and employ such a teaching ethic.
Finally, he connects a kindness-oriented teaching ethic to the societal need to maintain and develop a long-term democratic ideal.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Gorham
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9755-0200-3 (9781975502003)
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Person
Dr. Steve Broidy is an emeritus professor of education at both Missouri State University and Wittenberg University. He lives with his wife Susan, a sculptor, on 3 1/2 acres in Southwest Ohio. He is the author of Earth Inside Them, a poetry chapbook; and editor/contributor of From the Tower: Poetry in Honor of Conrad Balliet. Dr. Broidy has two children-one a chiropractor in Missouri and the other a wine importer/distributor in California.
Content
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Education, Ethics, and Kindness
Chapter 2. The Meaning of Kindness
Chapter 3. Sensibility and the Logic of Ethical Judgment
Chapter 4. Developing a Kindness-oriented Teaching Ethic
Chapter 5. Kindness and the Democratic Ideal
References
Introduction
Chapter 1. Education, Ethics, and Kindness
Chapter 2. The Meaning of Kindness
Chapter 3. Sensibility and the Logic of Ethical Judgment
Chapter 4. Developing a Kindness-oriented Teaching Ethic
Chapter 5. Kindness and the Democratic Ideal
References