ABSTRACT
This chapter is a review of the literature on suffering as informing educational practice. This chapter reviews literature from medicine, psychology, religion, social sciences, and education to bring many threads of thinking about suffering together. A dialectical bridge is built to further formulate a working comprehensive gestalt enabling educators to better understand student suffering in schools. This chapter broadens appreciation and related dispositions by which teachers and administrators encounter others as whole persons and function more responsively in their day-to-day work.
