{"product_id":"135189","title":"Melancholia in a Classroom ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYCUWMxOsP7t4flWTtTvrCoCyntyW.png?v=1765096595\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Melancholia in a Classroom \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/151066051\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eBeyond the children's sparkling eyes\u003cbr\u003e The shadow outside the classroom is clearly visible\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Melancholia in a Classroom\" is an educational essay that illuminates inequality and blind spots in care in Korean society through the lives of children encountered by a 20-something elementary school teacher over five years. \u003cbr\u003eThe shadows seen in the faces of children who come to school without coats even in the middle of winter, children who cannot bear to eat the praised snacks but put them in their pockets, and children who wander the streets after school point out that these are problems shared by our entire society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Author Park Sang-ah conveys that there are times when adult care is more urgent than a teacher's teachings.\u003cbr\u003e We witness how the gap between rich and poor, gaps in care, prejudice, and violence block educational opportunities and erode children's lives. We also see how, even if we try to solve these problems, as mere teachers, we cannot reach the root of the problems that lie outside the school.\u003cbr\u003e The lives he observed from the closest position to the children were each different, like wild flowers hidden in a field of lush grass. \u003cbr\u003eThis book is a small window that shows that it is the proper role of adults to pay attention to such lives, to look into each child's eyes and reach out to them.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e prolog.\u003cbr\u003e Hoping for ten people to take one step\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003cbr\u003e Children are innocent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Toyoko Kids in a Classroom\u003cbr\u003e On the Violence That Survived Despite the Era of Corporal Punishment Ban\u003cbr\u003e Even so, adults still have a role to play.\u003cbr\u003e Why would you hospitalize a child who is not sick?\u003cbr\u003e Children hear what is said during the day, and children also hear what is said at night.\u003cbr\u003e Issues to consider when dealing with your child's problem behavior\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003cbr\u003e The gap between rich and poor permeates even the classroom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The right to peek into someone's room during a Zoom class\u003cbr\u003e There's a kid who carries Haribo gummies in his pocket.\u003cbr\u003e Why I Can't Be Able to Ask What You Did Over the Weekend\u003cbr\u003e Regarding the fact that the background of the photo is a sewer \u003cbr\u003eSome kids talk about Tesla, Louis Vuitton, and iPhone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003cbr\u003e A hundred lives, a hundred exceptions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The sadness of having to teach seasonal clothing\u003cbr\u003e There are children on the edge in the classroom.\u003cbr\u003e If you want to send a child to middle school, you need to know the child's family circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e The strongest siblings I've ever met in my teaching career\u003cbr\u003e Clumsy minds wandering the classroom\u003cbr\u003e About the three faces of that child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003cbr\u003e Living with children\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The story of how I came to visit the sharing market\u003cbr\u003e If a child who cannot wash participates in survival swimming\u003cbr\u003e Can a teacher be a 'real' friend?\u003cbr\u003e The reason my old laptop is named Opportunity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue.\u003cbr\u003e They are all flowers\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate5545\/MidCate009\/554486186.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e The countless emotions I felt in the classroom were difficult to define in a single word.\u003cbr\u003e Some days I felt frustrated, some days I felt sad, and some days I felt listless. \u003cbr\u003eThere were many days when I fell into emptiness and moments when I had to swallow bitterness.\u003cbr\u003e Every time I met the children, the complex emotions that came over me made my heart heavy, like a cloudy sky with rain.\u003cbr\u003e The word 'melancholia' in the title of this book comes from that sense of despair and gloom.\u003cbr\u003e Each day with the children was a clear reality rather than a romantic one.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.7 「Prologue.\u003cbr\u003e From \"Hoping for Ten People to Take One Step\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'm just now realizing this as I read the text messages, which are a mixture of persuasion, anger, and love and hate.\u003cbr\u003e My efforts to somehow get Jinseo to return to the classroom had failed.\u003cbr\u003e It was greed to try to turn back Jinseo's heart, which was not filled with essential love.\u003cbr\u003e The fact that the interest and effort of a single teacher does not have as big an impact as you might think.\u003cbr\u003e When I face that limitation, I feel sad.\u003cbr\u003e Who could have sent this child home? \u003cbr\u003eHow could I have embraced you more warmly?\u003cbr\u003e It's a night when I feel ashamed of the moments when I repeated the proposition, \"All children deserve to be loved,\" without even realizing that it was out of touch with reality.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.22 「Chapter 1.\u003cbr\u003e From \"Children are not guilty\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Some children live in an environment where their only world is the snacks handed out by their school teachers.\u003cbr\u003e To some, it may be just 'a single jelly', but they put their heart and soul into obtaining that jelly, and they cherish each and every one of them as if they were treasures.\u003cbr\u003e In the process, sometimes you put your family before your own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When faced with such children, there is not much for the homeroom teacher to do.\u003cbr\u003e It just fills up the snack basket and makes it more full.\u003cbr\u003e I just cheer them on without showing any pity or sympathy towards them. \u003cbr\u003eOne more thing, it just subtly teaches you how to take care of your own share before others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.87 「Chapter 2.\u003cbr\u003e From “The gap between rich and poor that permeates even the classroom”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you want to send a child to middle school, you need to know the child's family circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e I have to ask uncomfortable questions and sometimes hear an unpleasant voice in return.\u003cbr\u003e But when it comes to forcing children through this process due to unavoidable circumstances, I really want to give up.\u003cbr\u003e It would have been much better to just hear from my parents about my feelings of dissatisfaction, frustration, irritation, and anger.\u003cbr\u003e Whenever I met the children's eyes, overflowing with trust and obedience, without a single trace of negative emotion, and witnessed them trying to somehow get the \"documents\" the teacher had mentioned, I would unconsciously lower my head.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.142 「Chapter 3.\u003cbr\u003e From “A Hundred Lives, A Hundred Exceptions”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHow long will I be allowed to pursue the teaching profession?\u003cbr\u003e Just thinking about how many 'backstabbing' moments I'll face in the future makes my eyes ache and my head hurt.\u003cbr\u003e But I decide again to do it silently with a good heart.\u003cbr\u003e Because I believe that when hearts that cannot ignore come together, they can reach children who really need it.\u003cbr\u003e Because I believe that simple attention and helping hand will make some children's days a little more peaceful.\u003cbr\u003e And now I know that that care and touch will soon return as a wood fire that warms my heart.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.196-197 「Chapter 4.\u003cbr\u003e From “Living with Children”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I think I only found out when I reached the last chapter.\u003cbr\u003e In conclusion, I want children to be welcomed into the world for who they are. \u003cbr\u003eEven if your family background isn't stable, your finances are difficult, you have a disability, or you don't meet the standards of the average person, you want to be respected and loved by others.\u003cbr\u003e Children have that right.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.225 「Epilogue.\u003cbr\u003e From \"Everyone is a Flower\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eTimes when care was needed rather than teaching\u003cbr\u003e Beyond innocence and loveliness,\u003cbr\u003e The Bare Face of the Classroom as Facing a 20-Year-Old Teacher\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These days, warnings about low birth rates and population decline have become familiar.\u003cbr\u003e But how are the children already born in this land, especially those who are excluded from the attention and institutional protection of adults, living?\u003cbr\u003e \"Melancholia in a Classroom\" takes a look at the dark side of Korean society that we tend to ignore today through the scenes that a 20-something elementary school teacher encountered in the classroom over the course of five years. \u003cbr\u003eThe anecdotes that unfold in school life, the images of children each enduring different difficulties, and the honest feelings of a teacher who speaks softly and subtly before them become records that go beyond simple experiences and touch upon various issues both inside and outside the classroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When I first started teaching, I thought that all children grew up in warm homes and were loved.\u003cbr\u003e Making mistakes, getting scolded, and still smiling innocently.\u003cbr\u003e But the reality was different.\u003cbr\u003e There were children who had to be taught how to dress for the season or how to wash their hair before being taught Korean or math, children for whom the only snack in their world was the jelly they received as a stamp of praise during class, and children who wandered around after school without a place to go. \u003cbr\u003eI felt respect for children who grew up strong and bright in more difficult environments than others, but I also felt frustrated when I couldn't stop children who were thrown around by complicated family situations and ended up on the path of delinquency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The teaching methods, classroom management ideas, and play activities I had prepared with the expectation of teaching children were all secondary to this reality.\u003cbr\u003e As the author went through countless moments where immediate care was needed rather than teaching, a clouded light and a heavy sadness settled in a corner of his heart.\u003cbr\u003e Even though I always tried my best to provide the best help and respect, there weren't many problems I could solve as a teacher.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lives of children as seen from the perspective of an adult nearby\u003cbr\u003e The meaning of school as a space and the profession of teacher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the beginning, the author did not intend to live as an ‘adult next to children.’ \u003cbr\u003eWhenever the line between public and private life becomes blurred in front of children in need of care, I always wonder how far I should dedicate myself as a teacher.\u003cbr\u003e They also complained about uncooperative parents, a social atmosphere that did not respect teachers' authority, and a flawed education and welfare system.\u003cbr\u003e Even if teachers wanted to work for the children, the root of the problem often lay outside the school, so there seemed to be little they could do.\u003cbr\u003e In the midst of these conflicts, he constantly questioned his own limitations and sometimes felt skeptical about the role of schools and teachers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author, who describes himself as someone who is far from having a strong sense of mission or service spirit, confesses that it was “force majeure” that made him have no choice but to roll up his sleeves every time it came to children’s affairs. \u003cbr\u003eAt an age where it's normal for children to not know how to take care of themselves, I couldn't turn away from the innocent faces of children who had to grow up alone without the care of those around them.\u003cbr\u003e Even though I had thoughts like, 'Do I really have to do this?', I ended up becoming an adult who made home visits, browsed charity markets, and washed children's hair.\u003cbr\u003e It was only after being so close to the children and being supported and nagged by them that he finally came to a realization.\u003cbr\u003e What these children really need is a careful look into their lives, a willingness to understand their young peers in our society and to reach out as much as possible.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInequality, care gaps, prejudice and violence\u003cbr\u003e How to Block Educational Opportunities\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The question the author poses is ultimately one.\u003cbr\u003e \"Why do some children never even reach the starting line?\" The classroom, an everyday space, becomes a window that reflects the structural deficiencies of our society. \u003cbr\u003eSet in a classroom, this book explores how the gap between rich and poor, gaps in care, prejudice, and violence intertwine to block educational opportunities, ultimately undermining a child's self-esteem and future.\u003cbr\u003e It doesn't stop at just critically describing this, but it also captures the guilt and helplessness felt as an adult who stays closest to the children, as well as the desire to still stand by the children, as well as the agony and determination of a teacher, which holds the reader's heart for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The voices contained in this book are not limited to those within the educational community.\u003cbr\u003e This is also a record that asks us what responsibilities we have as members of a society where children live together.\u003cbr\u003e The author says:\u003cbr\u003e If we gather together little by little, hearts that do not ignore children, we will eventually be able to reach the places where they are most needed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Melancholia in a Classroom\" is a book for children, but at the same time, it is a book for society and adults who must welcome and care for children.\u003cbr\u003e This book quietly but resonates with a profound sense of solidarity, conveying the message that the most practical form of solidarity needed by adults in this age is an attitude of closely observing children's lives, a willingness to share care appropriate to each individual's wounds, and that small, concrete respect. 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