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A Special Scar: The Experiences of People Bereaved by Suicide

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Alison Wertheimer

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“In constantly responding to preconceived ideas, children lose opportunities to demonstrate original thinking, organize concepts, and design formats which capture their intent. Prescribed curriculum, an exclusively predetermined learning agenda, ignores the contexts that are naturally created by childhood. Although some elements of prescription have value in planning curriculum, the notion of the "child's curriculum" has long been buried under layers of national, state, district, and school mandates.”

“It may seem unrealistic to expect that teachers should love their students, but the more I delve into the research on teaching, the more it seems to converge on the importance of love--not the type between parents and their children, surely, but love in the sense that Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela meant it, a faith we choose to have in the inherent worth and dignity of another human being.”