Death in the classroom : writing about love and loss / Jeffrey Berman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berman, Jeffrey, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Psychological aspects--Study and teaching.

Death.

Death in literature--Study and teaching.

Death in literature.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Psychological aspects.

English language.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2009]

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.

Contents:

Getting started

Writing an obituary

Writing a eulogy

On teaching the book of Job-and being denounced as a "false prophet"

Writing on religion and death

Cathy's letter to her deceased mother in Wuthering Heights

A problem with another student, and evaluating the evaluator

Ten things to do before I die

Writing about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

Writing about Jeff's former students in Empathic teaching

A teacher's self-eulogy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780791476314

0791476316

9780791476321

0791476324

OCLC:

190760654