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    Life and Grief in the Classroom
    (2013-09-09) Mistal, Michaela; Panayotidis, Lisa
    This research explores the lifeworld of grief in teaching and learning. Guided by my own story of teaching while living through the process of my mother’s dying and my bereavement, I question my knowing about how this might affect the relationships between myself and my students within the classroom. Such understandings moved beyond the boundaries of my own story, into the depth of the lifeworld of the classroom as a student in my school was lost to suicide. Reflecting on how these events affected my life as a teacher as well as the pedagogical space of my classroom, I ask: what are we to do in the midst of pain and suffering in the classroom? I want to understand and explore deeply how grief is dealt within individual and collective lives and how it might manifest itself in the daily life of school.