Joyful Resilience As Educational Practice

This book offers a foundation from which to reframe obstacles to teaching as opportunities for personal and professional growth. Chapters highlight the reciprocal nature of educational challenges, or how the very challenges found in education-difficult interactions with students, finding and using effective classroom materials, attempts to connect educational theory with classroom practice-are likewise means of cultivating gratitude for the practice of teaching. As this book demonstrates, a perspective that acknowledges the tensions and realities of various teaching contexts prepares educators to teach for the long haul, and to teach with joy--