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The Holistic Curriculum
Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience – connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between academic disciplines, between individual and community, and between the personal self and the transpersonal Self that all spiritual traditions believe exist beyond the ego. First published in 1988, The Holistic Curriculum examines the philosophical, psychological, and social foundations of holistic education, provides an outline of its history, and discusses practical applications for this type of learning in the classroom. This revised and expanded second edition concisely describes how holistic thinking integrates spiritual and scientific perspectives, drawing on romantic, humanistic, and other radical alternatives to the atomistic worldview of the modern age. The role of the teacher, the issue of accountability, and strategies for implementing the Holistic Curriculum are also discussed.
Insights Into Teachers' Thinking And Practice
A collection of original research conducted by scholars from Europe and North America. The papers consider the evolution of research on teachers' thinking, the nature of professional knowledge, and philosophical and moral dimensions of teachers' thinking.
Dorek
Dorek has no sense of achievement in life and is perceived as a ‘Walter Mitty’ character. As a boy, he was obsessed with a girl who lived opposite him and he finds it difficult to relate to other people. This is a result of his deafness and his uncertain sexuality. After his mother’s death he uncovers a family secret. Then his monetary fortunes unexpectedly change and he decides to travel to Australia and New Zealand. Through learning more about his family history and the connections he uncovers, Dorek eventually finds an inner peace.
The Sharp Edge of Educational Change
The Sharp Edge of Educational Change conveys the realities of reform as they affect educators' practice. The collected chapters each focus on particular current reform and reveal the technical and logistical complications, social and political dynamics, cognitive disjunctures and limitations, and emotional demands of reform. In so doing, they provide new and rich conceptual perspectives on the contemporary nature of teachers' and administrators' work in classrooms, schools and other educational settings.
Cultural Literacy and Arts Education
Thirteen experts in the visual arts, literature, music, dance, and theater responded to the arguments of E. D. Hirsch's "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know", focusing particularily on his alarm at the serious slippage that has occurred in the background knowledge and information prerequisite for effective communication. These authorities addressed two questions: (1) What it means for people to be "literate" (that is, able to understand communications and have relevant experiences) in various art forms? (2) What sorts of context should such individuals bring to their encounters with works in these art forms and what would that imply for arts education? The contributing specialists are E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Harry S. Broudy, Jerrold Levinson, Patti P. Gillespie, Walter H. Clark, Jr., John Adkins Richardson, Francis Sparshott, Clifton Olds, Marcia Muelder Eaton, Ronald Berman, Lucian Krukowski, Michael J. Parsons, and David J. Elliot. (KM)
Elementary Curriculum
The curriculum is the soul of the educational process, the heart of educational institution and the mind of the academic programme. It is the tool in the hands of the teachers to mould his students according to the goals of the education, and aims and objectives of the course. Any course cannot be conducted without a prescribed curriculum. More particularly, a definite as well as flexible curriculum at elementary level is needed as it is a combination of various subjects, skills, abilities, aptitudes and understanding. The present book on elementary curriculum is intended to guide preservice and inservice teachers to teach effectively, to provide insights to the curriculum designers to develop a suitable curriculum, to the writers to suggest suitable learning experiences, and to the parents to cooperate to realise the potentialities of their children. This book is touching all the important issues of curriculum, curriculum development, language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, assessment and evaluation.
Beyond Obedience and Abandonment
A sensitive and challenging look at accommodating difference in religious education.
Pneuma and Logos
The role of the Holy Spirit in the writing of Scripture and the role of the Holy Spirit in the understanding of Scripture are corollary ideas. The first one of these--usually referred to as the Inspiration of Scripture--has been extensively discussed by the Early Church Fathers, theologians, and other Bible scholars from the earliest centuries of the Church until the present. Likewise, the second of these corollary ideas--the role of the Holy Spirit in the understanding of Scripture--has been widely considered from the time of the Early Church Fathers. However, this idea, usually referred to as the Illumination of Scripture, has not been as extensively discussed as the corollary doctrine of ...
Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts
Metaphor studies is a vibrant and fascinating field. The present book brings together the work of influential researchers analyzing metaphor empirically from Critical Socio-Cognitive perspectives (CSCDA). The case studies focus on the role of metaphor as a powerful strategy for the creation of specific world views and ideological frames, as well as for their contestation in current crises.
