Teacherly Love: Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment in Classroom Life

Authors

  • Lisa S. Goldstein

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v32i3.52538

Abstract

Teachers often s peak about loving their students; academics, too, take teachers' love for students to be a commonplace of education. However, there has been no attempt to theorize how love operates in the classroom lives of teachers and children. In this article I identify and describe a particular constellation of feelings which I have labeled "teacherly love," a distinct and unique variety of love both like and unlike other varieties of love that have been previously explored.

Author Biography

Lisa S. Goldstein

Lisa S. Goldstein is an assistant profession in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches in the Curriculum Studies and Early Childhood Education programs. A graduate of the Stanford University School of Education, she is the author of Teaching With Love: A Feminist Approach to Early Childhood Education (Peter Lang, 1977) and several journal articles. Her current research centers on the role of caring relationships in the intellectual development of young children.

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Published

2018-05-17

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 3 (1998)

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