Teaching with Love: A Feminist Approach to Early Childhood Education

by Lisa S. Goldstein

Teachers commonly talk about loving their students, yet no effort has been made to explore the powerful educational potential inherent in these loving feelings. Teaching with Love breaks new ground by paying careful, scholarly attention to the nature, the scope, the dimensions, and the variety of teacherly love. In a highly readable narrative that builds on the feminist notion of an ethic of care and draws from the fields of psychology and women's studies, this book examines and analyzes the experiences of two primary grade teachers as they set about trying to create and enact a vision of early childhood education centered around loving relationships.

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First published October 1, 1998

Reviews

[Joe Lyons · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book opened my eyes wider and showed me things I never learned about in two graduate programs in Early Childhood Ed and Family and Child Science about feminist research challenges. This research was completed in the 90s and both my degree programs were in the 20 teens. That's a problem.

I am now looking for ways to incorporate Dr Goldstein's research practices into my daycare activities and into my own research.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

too much edu-speak for my liking, but luckily there are good descriptions of the classroom environment.