"The Compassionate Educator is an edited collection that explores the complexities that surround students’ lived realities and the variety of social issues that impact Canadian classrooms. Perhaps more urgently today than ever before, teachers in Canadian schools need to encounter current social issues from a place of deep understanding and compassion. Chapters focus on topics like mental health, Indigenous education, queer education, racism, youth radicalization, disability, religious responsiveness in schools, ensuring respect for ESL students, and teaching refugee students. Contributing writers present their ideas as to how teachers can best understand and respond to often difficult encounters in the classroom through empathy and an ethics of care. Using a student-centered methodology and encouraging critical reflection and a deeper understanding of diversity, this book serves as an excellent resource for teachers from across Canada and as a textbook for teacher education programs."-- Provided by publisher.

The Compassionate Educator: Uncovering and Addressing Layers of Complex and Urgent Sociocultural Realities / Verna L. McDonald and Ed Harrison -- Teaching in Difficult Times: The Promise of Care Ethics / Kumari Beck and Wanda Cassidy -- Educators’ Journeys of Studying Contemporary Indigenous History and Culture: Along the Road of Compassion to Reconciliation / Joanna Black -- Straight Teacher Allies: Lessons from Compassionate Educators / Leigh Potvin -- Closing the Gaps: A Compassionate View of Mental Health Beyond the Medical Model / Christina Luzius-Vanin and Alana Butler -- The Compassionate Language Educator: Understanding Social Issues in Canadian Schools / Francis Bangou, Stephanie Arnott, Carole Fleuret, Douglas Fleming, and Marie-Josée Vignola -- (3z(BI Just Want My Teachers to Care about Me(3y: (BCompassion through Care with Refugee Students in High School Classrooms / Doug Checkley and Sharon Pelech -- Treating English Language Students with Respect: Critical Praxis / Jeff Brown and Brett Reynolds -- Help, I’m Being Yelled at by a Parent! Overcoming Interpersonal Challenges with Compassionate Assertiveness / Dawn McBride and Alyson Worrall -- Compassionate Communication: A Key Aspect of Partnering with Parents of Students with Disabilities / Kyle Robinson and Nancy L. Hutchinson -- Viewing with Compassion: Religious Responsiveness in Canadian Schools / David C. Young and Kendra Gottschall -- The Radicalization of Youth in the West: How Can Canadian Teachers Effectively Approach This Issue in Their Classrooms? / Maihemuti Dilimulati, Helal Hossain Dhali, and Ratna Ghosh -- Compassion in High-Poverty Schools: Socially Just Educational Leadership in Action / Pam Bishop -- Racism in Schools and Classrooms: Towards an Anti-Racist Pedagogy of Power and Systemic Privilege / George J. Sefa Dei and Rowena Linton.