Authors: John P. Miller (Editor), Diana Denton (Editor), Deborah Orr (Editor), Selia Karsten (Editor), Isabella Colalillo Kates
ISBN-13: 9780791463529, ISBN-10: 0791463524
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
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.
Author Biography: John P. Miller is Professor and Head of the Centre for Teacher Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He has published many books, including Education and the Soul: Toward a Spiritual Curriculum, also published by SUNY Press. Selia Karsten is Professor of Marketing and eBusiness at Seneca College and also teaches in the Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Diana Denton is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Waterloo. Deborah Orr is Assistant Professor of Humanities at York University. Isabella Colalillo Kates is a writer, poet, and holistic educator based in Toronto.
Introduction : holistic learning | 1 | |
1 | Educating for the soul | 9 |
2 | Reflections on our common lifelong learning journey | 17 |
3 | Education and the modern assault on being human : nurturing body, soul, and spirit | 27 |
4 | Tomorrow's children : education for a partnership world | 47 |
5 | Emancipatory hope : transformative learning and the "strange attractors" | 69 |
6 | Teilhard de Chardin and holistic education | 79 |
7 | Minding the soul in education : conceptualizing and teaching the whole person | 87 |
8 | Nourishing adolescents' spirituality | 101 |
9 | Won Hyo's one heart-mind and meditation on one heart-mind as part of holistic education | 109 |
10 | Caring classroom relationships take time and commitment : one school's vision of a holistic learning community | 119 |
11 | Interface of holistic changes in Japanese schools and Waldorf education | 129 |
12 | Remembering the past, celebrating the present, and imagining the future : the storytelling project at Lord Dufferin Public School | 137 |
13 | Journal writing in mathematics education : communicating the affective dimensions of mathematics learning | 145 |
14 | In da zone : meditation, masculinity, and a meaningful life | 153 |
15 | Contemplating great things in soul and place | 161 |
16 | Listening to ancient voices : reaching hearts and souls through benchmarks and rites of passage experiences in schools | 167 |
17 | In the flame of the heart : toward a pedagogy of compassion | 181 |
18 | The creative journey : personal creativity as soul work | 193 |
19 | A gathering of orphans : struggling for liberation and awakening within the goal | 207 |
20 | The eros of teaching | 215 |
21 | Flowing together in the rainbow : experiences from two workshops on art making and meditation | 223 |
22 | Conclusion : seeking wholeness | 233 |