Holistic Learning And Spirituality In Education: Breaking New Ground

by Miller, John P.; Karsten, Selia; Denton, Diana

• ISBN13: 9780791463529
• ISBN10: 0791463524
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-03
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

In "Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education, scholars from around the globe address the theory, practice, and poetics of holistic education. Some of the topics explored include educating the soul; partnership education; nourishing adolescents' spirituality; education and the modern assault on being human; the Eros of teaching; personal creativity as soul work; pedagogies of compassion; and meditation, masculinity, and meaningful life.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Holistic Learning	1	(8)
JOHN P. MILLER
PART 1 Theorizing a Pedagogy of Wholeness: Awakening Self, Soul, and Spirit
1. Educating for the Soul	9	(8)
THOMAS MOORE
2. Reflections on Our Common Lifelong Learning Journey	17	(10)
ANNA F. LEMKOW
3. Education and the Modern Assault on Being Human: Nurturing Body, Soul, and Spirit	27	(20)
DOUGLAS SLOAN
4. Tomorrow's Children: Education for a Partnership World	47	(22)
RIANE EISLER
5. Emancipatory Hope: Transformative Learning and the "Strange Attractors"	69	(10)
EDMUND O'SULLIVAN
6. Teilhard de Chardin and Holistic Education	79	(8)
BOK YOUNG KIM
7. Minding the Soul in Education: Conceptualizing and Teaching the Whole Person	87	(14)
DEBORAH ORR
8. Nourishing Adolescents' Spirituality	101	(8)
RACHAEL KESSLER
9. Won Hyo's One Heart-Mind and Meditation on One Heart-Mind as Part of Holistic Education	109
YOUNG-MANN PARK AND MIN-YOUNG SONG
PART 2 Practices: Integrating Self, Soul, and Spirit in the Classroom
10. Caring Classroom Relationships Take Time and Commitment: One School's Vision of a Holistic Learning Community	119	(10)
GARY BABIUK
11. Interface of Holistic Changes in Japanese Schools and Waldorf Education	129	(8)
ATSUHIKO YOSHIDA
12. Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Present, and Imagining the Future: The Storytelling Project at Lord Dufferin Public School	137	(8)
MARNI BINDER
13. Journal Writing in Mathematics Education: Communicating the Affective Dimensions of Mathematics Learning	145	(8)
RINA COHEN
14. In Da Zone: Meditation, Masculinity, and a Meaningful Life	153	(8)
DAVID FORBES
15. Contemplating Great Things in Soul and Place	161	(6)
SUSAN A. SCHILLER
16. Listening to Ancient Voices: Reaching Hearts and Souls through Benchmarks and Rites of Passage Experiences in Schools	167	(14)
LESLIE OWEN WILSON
PART 3 Inspiring Wholeness: The Poetics of Holistic Education
17. In the Flame of the Heart: Toward a Pedagogy of Compassion	181	(12)
DIANA DENTON
18. The Creative Journey: Personal Creativity as Soul Work	193	(14)
ISABELLA COLALILLO KATES
19. A Gathering of Orphans: Struggling for Liberation and Awakening within the Goal	207	(8)
F. CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
20. The Eros of Teaching	215	(8)
CELESTE SNOWBER
21. Flowing Together in the Rainbow: Experiences from Two Workshops on Art Making and Meditation	223	(10)
AYAKO NOZAWA
22. Conclusion: Seeking Wholeness	233	(4)
JOHN P. MILLER
Contributors	237	(6)
Index	243