Something’s the matter. What’s the matter? What’s the matter? She asked herself. She didn’t know what she looked like and was not curious. But suddenly she saw her hands and thought with a clarity as simple as it was dazzling, ‘These hands belong to me. These my hands.’ Next she felt a knocking in her chest and discovered something else new: her own heartbeat. Had it been there all along? This pounding thing
-Morrison, Beloved
Abstract
“The Quest to be love(d) in urban schools,” serves as the introduction to the special issue of The Urban Review on love and urban schooling entitled, “What’s love got to do with it? Looking for love in urban schooling.” This introductory piece serves to invite the issue’s readers into the aim and purpose of the subject matter, tying together the through line of love and healing in urban education that exists throughout the manuscripts.
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