| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Gtting Started -- 2. Writing an Obituary -- 3. Writing a Eulogy -- 4. On Teaching the Book of Job-and Being Denounced as a "False Prophet" -- 5. Writing on Religion and Death -- 6. Cathy's Letter to Her Deceased Mother in Wuthering Heights -- 7. Problem with Another Student, and Evaluating the Evaluator -- 8. Ten Things to Do before I Die -- 9. Writing about Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide -- 10. Writing about Jeff's Former Students in Empathic Teaching -- 11. Teacher's Self-Eulogy -- Appendix A "Helping or Harming Students?" / Richard Bower -- Appendix B "Writing Has Saved My Life," Breanna's Story -- Appendix C "Literature, If Anything, Will Save Me," / Sara E. Murphy -- Appendix D English 226: Love and Loss in Literature and Life |
| Summary |
"In Death in the Classroom, Jeffrey Berman writes about Love and Loss, the course that he designed and taught two years after his wife's death, in which he explored with his students the literature of bereavement. Berman, building on his previous courses that emphasized self-disclosing writing, shows how his students wrote about their own experiences with love and loss, how their writing affected classmates and teacher alike, and how writing about death can lead to educational and psychological breakthroughs. In an age in which eighty percent of Americans die not in their homes but in institutions, and in which, consequently, the living are separated from the dying, Death in the Classroom reveals how reading, writing, and speaking about death can play a vital role in a student's education."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Death -- Psychological aspects -- Study and teaching
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Death in literature -- Study and teaching
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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Death in literature -- Study and teaching
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Death -- Psychological aspects -- Study and teaching
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441603616 |
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1441603611 |
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