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Towards Communities of Gratitude

Kerry Howells

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In this chapter we return to Eastgates Primary School to meet with the teachers’ gratitude group for the final time that year. We explore how practising gratitude as a group had expanded their notion of gratitude and their sense of community. Our discussion leads on to how this might result in reciprocity from the community and wider society. I bring the themes of the book together as we postulate a way forward where acts of gratitude can move us to actively consider education as a ‘gift’.

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In this chapter we return to Eastgates Primary School to meet with the teachers’ gratitude group for the final time that year. We explore how practising gratitude as a group had expanded their notion of gratitude and their sense of community. Our discussion leads on to how this might result in reciprocity from the community and wider society. I bring the themes of the book together as we postulate a way forward where acts of gratitude can move us to actively consider education as a ‘gift’.

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In this chapter we return to Eastgates Primary School to meet with the teachers’ gratitude group for the final time that year. We explore how practising gratitude as a group had expanded their notion of gratitude and their sense of community. Our discussion leads on to how this might result in reciprocity from the community and wider society. I bring the themes of the book together as we postulate a way forward where acts of gratitude can move us to actively consider education as a ‘gift’.

Key concepts: Gratitude, Reciprocity (cultural anthropology), Social psychology, Psychology, Sociology

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