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Title Holistic learning and spirituality in education : breaking new ground / edited by John P. Miller [and others]
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction : holistic learning / John P. Miller -- 1. Educating for the soul / Thomas Moore -- 2. Reflections on our common lifelong learning journey / Anna F. Lemkow -- 3. Education and the modern assault on being human : nurturing body, soul, and spirit / Douglas Sloan -- 4. Tomorrow's children : education for a partnership world / Riane Eisler -- 5. Emancipatory hope : transformative learning and the "strange attractors" / Edmund O'Sullivan -- 6. Teilhard de Chardin and holistic education / Bok Young Kim -- 7. Minding the soul in education : conceptualizing and teaching the whole person / Deborah Orr -- 8. Nourishing adolescents' spirituality / Rachael Kessler -- 9. Won Hyo's one heart-mind and meditation on one heart-mind as part of holistic education / Young-Mann Park / Min-Young Song -- 10. Caring classroom relationships take time and commitment : one school's vision of a holistic learning community / Gary Babiuk -- 11. Interface of holistic changes in Japanese schools and Waldorf education / Atsuhiko Yoshida -- 12. Remembering the past, celebrating the present, and imagining the future : the storytelling project at Lord Dufferin Public School / Marni Binder -- 13. Journal writing in mathematics education : communicating the affective dimensions of mathematics learning / Rina Cohen -- 14. In da zone : meditation, masculinity, and a meaningful life / David Forbes -- 15. Contemplating great things in soul and place / Susan A. Schiller -- 16. Listening to ancient voices : reaching hearts and souls through benchmarks and rites of passage experiences in schools / Leslie Owen Wilson -- 17. In the flame of the heart : toward a pedagogy of compassion / Diana Denton -- 18. creative journey : personal creativity as soul work / Isabella Colalillo Kates
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Holistic education -- Congresses
Learning -- Congresses
Spiritual life -- Congresses
EDUCATION -- Aims & Objectives.
Holistic education
Learning
Spiritual life
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, John P., 1943- editor.
Karsten, Selia, editor
Denton, Diana, editor.
Orr, Deborah, 1946- editor.
Kates, Isabella Colalillo, editor.
ISBN 1423743814
9781423743811
0791463524
9780791463529
0791463516
9780791463512
9780791483763
0791483762