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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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Getting 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. A 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. A 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

Works Cited
Student Writers
Index

Sujets

Santé et bien-être

Santé mentale & traumatisme

Vie de famille

Soutien psychologique et conseils familiaux

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	08 janvier 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791477373
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Death in the Classroom

Other Books by the Author Joseph Conrad: Writing as Rescue The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis Narcissism and the Novel Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom Surviving Literary Suicide Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom Empathic Teaching: Education for Life Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning Cutting and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure(with Patricia Hatch Wallace)

Death in the Classroom Writing about Love and Loss

Jeffrey Berman

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

2009 State University of New York

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Berman, Jeffrey, 1945– Death in the classroom : writing about love and loss / Jeffrey Berman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7914-7631-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-7914-7632-1 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Death—Psychological aspects—Study and teaching. 2. Death in literature— Study and teaching. 3. English language—Rhetoric—Study and teaching— Psychological aspects. I. Title.

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For our grandchildren: Max, Nate, Talia, and Skyler

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Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. —E. M. Forster,Howards End

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