Death in the Classroom: Writing About Love and Loss

by Berman, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780791476321
• ISBN10: 0791476324
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-08
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His previous books include Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning, also published by SUNY Press; Cutting and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure; Empathic Teaching: Education for Life; and Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Getting Started	p. 17
Writing an Obituary	p. 43
Writing a Eulogy	p. 57
On Teaching the Book of Job-and Being Denounced as a "False Prophet"	p. 79
Writing on Religion and Death	p. 103
Cathy's Letter to Her Deceased Mother in Wuthering Heights	p. 121
A Problem with Another Student, and Evaluating the Evaluator	p. 143
Ten Things to Do before I Die	p. 155
Writing about Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide	p. 177
Writing about Jeff's Former Students in Empathic Teaching	p. 199
A Teacher's Self-Eulogy	p. 219
"Helping or Harming Students?" Richard Bower	p. 227
"Writing Has Saved My Life," Breanna's Story	p. 241
"Literature, If Anything, Will Save Me," Sara E. Murphy	p. 261
English 226: Love and Loss in Literature and Life	p. 267
Works Cited	p. 275
Student Writers	p. 281
Index	p. 283
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