Holistic Learning And Spirituality In Education: Breaking New Ground

Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education: Breaking New Ground......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Holistic Learning......Page 14
PART 1. Theorizing a Pedagogyof Wholeness: Awakening Self, Soul, and Spirit......Page 20
1. Educating for the Soul......Page 22
2. Reflections on Our Common Lifelong Learning Journey......Page 30
3. Education and the Modern Assault on Being Human: Nurturing Body, Soul, and Spirit......Page 40
4. Tomorrow’s Children: Education for a Partnership World......Page 60
5. Emancipatory Hope: Transformative Learning and the “Strange Attractors”......Page 82
6. Teilhard de Chardin and Holistic Education:......Page 92
7. Minding the Soul in Education: Conceptualizing and Teaching the Whole Person......Page 100
8. Nourishing Adolescents’ Spirituality......Page 114
9. Won Hyo’s One Heart-Mind and Meditation on One Heart-Mind as Part of Holistic Education......Page 122
PART 2. Practices: Integrating Self, Soul, and Spirit in the Classroom......Page 130
10. Caring Classroom RelationshipsTake Time and Commitment: One School’s Vision of a Holistic Learning Community......Page 132
11. Interface of Holistic Changes in Japanese Schools and Waldorf Education......Page 142
12. Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Present, and Imagining the Future: The Storytelling Project at Lord Dufferin Public School......Page 150
13. Journal Writing in Mathematics Education: Communicating the Affective Dimensions of Mathematics Learning......Page 158
14. In Da Zone: Meditation, Masculinity, and a Meaningful Life......Page 166
15. Contemplating Great Things in Soul and Place......Page 174
16. Listening to Ancient Voices: Reaching Hearts and Souls through Benchmarks and Rites of Passage Experiences in Schools......Page 180
PART 3. Inspiring Wholeness: The Poetics of Holistic Education......Page 192
17. In the Flame of the Heart: Toward a Pedagogy of Compassion......Page 194
18. The Creative Journey: Personal Creativity as Soul Work......Page 206
19. A Gathering of Orphans: Struggling for Liberation and Awakening within the Goal......Page 220
20. The Eros of Teaching......Page 228
21. Flowing Together in the Rainbow: Experiences from Two Workshops on Art Making and Meditation......Page 236
22. Conclusion: Seeking Wholeness......Page 246
Contributors......Page 250
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D......Page 257
H......Page 258
K......Page 259
O......Page 260
S......Page 261
W......Page 262
Z......Page 263