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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807138103321

Autore

Berman Jeffrey <1945->

Titolo

Dying to teach [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir of love, loss, and learning / / Jeffrey Berman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007

ISBN

0-7914-8050-X

1-4294-6574-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

362.196/994370092

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Soggetti

Caregivers

Death

Eulogies

Hospice care

Pancreas - Cancer - Patients

Teacher-student relationships

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Barbara's cancer diary -- Barbara's death -- My eulogy for Barbara -- An optional writing assignment -- The other eulogies -- Students reading about Barbara's life -- Life after Barbara.

Sommario/riassunto

In Dying to Teach, Jeffrey Berman confronts the most wrenching loss imaginable: the death of his beloved wife, Barbara. Through four interrelated narratives—how Barbara wrote about her illness in a cancer diary, how he cared for her throughout her illness, how his students reacted to his disclosure that she was dying, and how he responded to her death—Berman explores his efforts to hold on to Barbara precisely as she was letting go of life. Intensely personal, Dying to Teach affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work through grief, and demonstrates the importance of death education: teachers and students writing and talking about a subject that, until now, has often been deemed too personal for the classroom.