Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education: Breaking New Ground
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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 learning11Educating for the soul92Reflections on our common lifelong learning journey173Education and the modern assault on being human : nurturing body, soul, and spirit274Tomorrow's children : education for a partnership world475Emancipatory hope : transformative learning and the "strange attractors"696Teilhard de Chardin and holistic education797Minding the soul in education : conceptualizing and teaching the whole person878Nourishing adolescents' spirituality1019Won Hyo's one heart-mind and meditation on one heart-mind as part of holistic education10910Caring classroom relationships take time and commitment : one school's vision of a holistic learning community11911Interface of holistic changes in Japanese schools and Waldorf education12912Remembering the past, celebrating the present, and imagining the future : the storytelling project at Lord Dufferin Public School13713Journal writing in mathematics education : communicating the affective dimensions of mathematics learning14514In da zone : meditation, masculinity, and a meaningful life15315Contemplating great things in soul and place16116Listening to ancient voices : reaching hearts and souls through benchmarks and rites of passage experiences in schools16717In the flame of the heart : toward a pedagogy of compassion18118The creative journey : personal creativity as soul work19319A gathering of orphans : struggling for liberation and awakening within the goal20720The eros of teaching21521Flowing together in the rainbow : experiences from two workshops on art making and meditation22322Conclusion : seeking wholeness233
