Teaching With Tenderness

the age of the Internet has made it harder to know ourselves in relation to real time.

The chronic stress of pace and politics, hurry and waste, is all wrapped around the demands of the marketplace

One challenge, then, for teachers is to expose students to new knowledge in a way that does not contribute to the overload they

body is the starting place for intellectual, spiritual, and political growth.

might we sometimes be looking in the wrong places for what we are seeking?

What rituals might we incorporate into teaching that invite the body into the classroom? What is it about the structure of academe that leads us to flee our bodies? How can we find them again?

Over time I realized that I was a much more effective teacher if I took a more right-brain approach (more intuitive, circular, feeling oriented) to teaching about slavery, genocide, and colonization. I could still incorporate key “facts,” but I realized that if I approach the course from a left-side, statistical, linear angle, that shapes the kinds

you are listening people into

Sometimes I have felt that my most important work in academe is as a conduit between the classroom and the counseling center.