Infusing Love into Daily Pedagogy

Abstract

This book has provided the rationale and justification for the use of a selection of elements that lead classroom teachers towards a pedagogy of love. These include the development of kindness and empathy, intimacy and bonding, sacrifice and forgiveness, and community and acceptance in the teaching and learning relationship. In each chapter practical suggestions, theorised and adapted from a basis of research and literature, have been offered on how to infuse the various elements into classrooms and schools. The preceding chapter drew the links between theory and a reallife example of loving pedagogy at work in a school. This final chapter examines the pragmatics of how educators can plan to adopt a loving pedagogy into daily teaching and learning activities, and also monitor the extent to which personal practice matches personal expectations.