NEW BOOK - TEACHING WITH TENDERNESS: TOWARD AN EMBODIED PRACTICE
Imagine a classroom that explores the twinned ideas of embodied teaching and a pedagogy of tenderness. Becky envisions such a curriculum–and a way of being–that promises to bring about a sea change in education. Read Becky Thompson's new book, "Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice". Learn More >
"I love this radical book down to its tiniest footnote.”
-Mary Rose O'Reilley, Author of The Peaceable Classroom
WHAT'S COMING NEXT
Books By Becky Thompson
Becky's new book of poetry, "Justonics," (Dancing Girl Press) will be out in the near future. Danielle Legros Georges, author of The Dear Remote Nearness of You (Barrow Street) and Boston Poet Laureate, praised Becky's work by saying, "Becky Thompson boldly hurls us into the space in which language is born...Justonics gives us a new way to read ourselves and the world."
On the heels of a disastrous election in the United States, I got the lucky chance to travel to China, made possible by a dynamic group of Chinese feminists. I taught “Working for Peace, Insisting on Justice” seminars with migrant, factory workers in Guangzhou and community organizers, academics, NGO workers in Dali.
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