Reimagining Education

by Slattery, Dennis Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781882670635
• ISBN10: 1882670639
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-20
• Publisher: Spring Journal

Summary

In this collection of essays, Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig bring together eighteen master teachersfrom elementary, high school, undergraduate, graduate, adult education, and across many disciplinesto share their reflections on reviving, revisioning, and renewing the soul of learning. What timeless and perennial qualities of excellence are germane to teaching and learning, both of which serve the life of imagination and the further cultivation of the soul? The answers rest in these essays, which are repositories of the wisdom of teachers with decades of experience in the classroom, whose only mandate in contributing to this volume was to speak their own truths, which have informed thousands of learners young and old.

Author Biography

Dennis Patrick Slattery has taught for 40 years in special education, secondary, undergraduate and graduate levels as well as adult education programs, workshops and writing retreats in the United States, Canada and Europe. His subjects are writing, literary theory and classics, depth psychology and mythology. Jennifer Leigh Selig was a high school teacher for sixteen years before moving into 'higher' education for the last five years. She has taught literature, composition, psychology, mythology, drama and educational theory to students between the ages of 12 and 78.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xvii
City, Soul and Myth	p. 1
The Dance of Learning	p. 7
Chronos vs. Kairos: A Plea for the Restoration of Empathy and Imagination in History Teaching	p. 17
Good Teaching Doesn't Count!	p. 29
Finding the Philosopher's Stone	p. 39
Restoring Soul to Teaching: Reflections on the Division of Spirit from Matter in Teaching and Learning	p. 51
'Trying to Touch What Matters': Confessions of a High School Dropout	p. 69
Soul-Centered Education: An Interview With Stephen Aizenstat	p. 79
What White Whale Breaches? Classroom as Sacred Space	p. 91
Spiritual Resonance in the Classroom	p. 103
Poetic Awareness: Imagining and the Experience of Soul	p. 113
'Till We Have Faces': Image as Psyche	p. 125
Teaching Thinking	p. 137
The Eros of Teaching	p. 149
The Authority of the Teacher	p. 155
Teaching Joseph Campbell and the Arthurian Romance	p. 163
Under the Helmet	p. 173
Teaching as Mothering the Soul	p. 181
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