Dillard On Spiritual Strivings

Transforming an African American Woman's Academic Life
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8147-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Women in Education

Offers both a theoretical and concrete example of what W. E. B. Du Bois called “spiritual strivings.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dillard, Cynthia B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments 1. The Substance of Things Hoped For, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Examining an Endarkened Epistemology in Educational Research and Leadership 2. What Is It and Where Does It Live? Toward Defining Spirit within a Research and Teaching Paradigm 3. Walking Ourselves Back Home: The Education of Teachers With/In the World 4. Looking at the Real Nature of Things: Life and Death as One Eternal Moment in Teaching and Research 5. Suddenly but Always Queen: Embracing a Methodology of Surrender in Research and Teaching 6. Akwanbo: From Speaking Words to Inviting the Voice of Spirit in Research 7. Out of My Darkness I Find My Light: Naming Self, Naming Spirit 8. Coming "Full Circle": Creating and Being on Purpose Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia B. Dillard is Associate Professor of Education at The Ohio State University. In June 2001 the community of Mpeasem, Ghana, honored her efforts in building a community center and preschool there by enstooling her as Queen Mother Nana Mansa II, during a traditional African ritual ceremony.