Relational Realms

Diana Wandix-White; Vicki G. Mokuria

doi:10.5771/9781475867220

Summary

Relational Realms offers context for the exploration of positive relationship building. It is rooted in the contention that relationships consist of various internal and external ways of knowing and being that constantly and interactively release and retrieve energy which, when acknowledged and worked through, can result in authentic and relationally healthy environments. In our present divided era, educators hold the potential to be societal change agents by engaging in a transformative way of relating to students, families, and other educators; Relational Realms offers such a pathway. Through this book, we offer a map for navigating relationships and analytical tools that provide theoretical and practical contexts for getting to the heart or root of positive relationship building in school environments and beyond. Relational Realms consists of a complex web of internal and external ways of knowing and being that challenge our emotions. Within the text, we lay out the key components of the 8 Relational Realms, and present the relationship among them. They include the following: relational epistemology, relational knowledge, relational knowing, relational cultural knowing, relational dissonance, relational value, relational spiritual knowing, relational competence.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6720-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6722-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 102
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
1. The Adventures of Di and Vi No access
2. How We Got Here No access
3. References No access
1. What Is Relational Epistemology? No access
2. Educators and Relational Epistemology No access
3. How Epistemology Impacts Both How and What We Teach and Learn No access
4. How to Begin the Inner Work of Understanding Our Own Epistemology No access
5. References No access
1. What Is Relational Knowledge? No access
2. Relational Knowledge and Teachers Connecting No access
3. Relational Knowledge and Teachers Teaching No access
4. Challenging Relational Knowledge through Other Types of Knowledge No access
5. Decolonizing Relational Knowledge No access
6. References No access
1. What Is Relational Dissonance? No access
2. Why Does Relational Dissonance Happen? No access
3. What Happens If We Just Sit in Relational Dissonance? No access
4. How Do We Move Out of Relational Dissonance? No access
5. What Happens When We Move Out of Relational Dissonance? No access
6. What Might I Do Now? No access
7. References No access
1. 1. Relational Knowing Begins Within No access
  2. Wide-Awakeness and Educators No access
2. How to Stay Present Most of the Time No access
3. Empathy and Care Linked to Relational Knowing No access
4. References No access
1. What Is Relational Cultural Knowing? No access
2. Wait . . . What Is Culture? No access
3. 1. Be Humble No access
  2. Respect No access
  3. Imagine No access
  4. Discover No access
  5. Give Gratitude No access
  6. Empathize No access
  7. Self-Knowledge No access
4. Why Is Relational Cultural Knowing Important for Educators? No access
5. References No access
1. 1. Relational Value in Challenging Relationships No access
  2. Relational Value as Linked to Schoolhouse Relationships No access
2. References No access
1. What Is Relational Spiritual Knowing? No access
2. Our Positionality No access
3. Relational Spiritual Knowing in Education No access
4. What Might I Do Now? Ways to Strengthen Relational Spiritual Knowing for Educators No access
5. References No access
1. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility No access
2. It’s What We Do No access
3. You Mean I Have to Like Everybody? No access
4. References No access
1. An Analytical Tool No access
2. References No access
1. References No access
About the Authors No access Pages 101 - 102