Author: Mary Keator Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000512738 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 143
Book Description
The Soul of Learning is a groundbreaking book that bridges together cultural work, contemplative practices, and ancient scriptures. Inside each chapter, readers are challenged and inspired to come face-to-face with themselves as they encounter teachers in all forms—from spiritual sages to critical theorists, from prophets to poets, from hip-hop rappers to reggae artists. This book is multifaceted and multidisciplinary. It models the essence of education by offering multiple entry points into holistic learning: somatic, aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, ethical, relational, and spiritual. The Soul of Learning embodies a pedagogical disruption in pursuit of personal sovereignty. What process must we go through to reimagine ourselves in relation to each other and the world around us? This book offers a semblance of an answer. As a way to bring the sacred into schooling, Keator and Watson courageously connect spirituality, activism, and education through curated readings, guided activities, and intentional exercises. It’s a ready-to-go syllabus and hands-on workbook all in one! Altogether this book is revelatory and provides innovative ways to teach and learn, lead and live. The Soul of Learning documents a transformative journey, through the interiority of our being into a revolutionary call for collective belonging.
Author: Mary Keator Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781003197164 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 142
Book Description
"The Soul of Learning is a groundbreaking book that bridges together cultural work, contemplative practices, and ancient scriptures. Inside each chapter, readers are challenged and inspired to come face-to-face with themselves as they encounter teachers in all forms-from spiritual sages to critical theorists, from prophets to poets, from hip-hop rappers to reggae artists. This book is multifaceted and multidisciplinary. It models the essence of education by offering multiple entry points into holistic learning: somatic, aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, ethical, relational, and spiritual"--
Author: John P. Miller Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791443422 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
With emphasis on preparing students for jobs, standards, and achievement testing, many think that North American education has become inwardly deadening, yet this book provides a counterbalance as it offers a way to nurture the soul in classrooms and schools.
Author: Margaret Benefiel Publisher: IAP ISBN: 1641136987 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 171
Book Description
The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research and Institutional Life for the Twenty-first Century contributes to an understanding of the importance and implications of a contemplative grounding for higher education. It is the sixth in a series entitled Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research and Application, which is intended to be an authoritative and comprehensive series in the field. This volume consists of chapters written by noted scholars from both Eastern and Western traditions that shed light on the following questions: • What is an appropriate epistemological grounding for contemplative higher education? How dues the current dominant epistemology in higher education mitigate against contemplative teaching, learning, and research? What alternatives can be offered? • How can a contemplative culture be nurtured in the classroom? What difference does that culture make in teaching and learning? What is the role of individual and institutional leadership in creating and sustaining this culture? • What is contemplative research? How can the emerging field of contemplative studies fit into the twenty-first-century university? • What can faculty and students learn from contemplative practices about how to find peace of mind in a world of higher education characterized by increasing complexity, financial pressures, and conflicts? • What does a contemplative organizational structure look like in higher education? How can committees, faculty meetings, and administrative teams use contemplative practices to work more effectively together? • How can contemplative decision-making processes be used in higher education? Given hierarchies, turf wars, and academics’ propensity for using argument as a weapon, is it possible to introduce contemplative practices into decision-making situations in appropriate ways?
Author: Dennis Patrick Slattery Publisher: ISBN: 9781882670635 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
In this collection of essays, Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig bring together eighteen master teachers"from elementary, high school, undergraduate, graduate, adult education, and across many disciplines"to share their reflections on reviving, revisioning, and renewing the soul of learning. What timeless and perennial qualities of excellence are germane to teaching and learning, both of which serve the life of imagination and the further cultivation of the soul? The answers rest in these essays, which are repositories of the wisdom of teachers with decades of experience in the classroom, whose only mandate in contributing to this volume was to speak their own truths, which have informed thousands of learners young and old.
Author: Rachael Kessler Publisher: ASCD ISBN: 0871203731 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 204
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Explores the spiritual dimension of education, and discusses ways to nourish the spiritual development of adolescents in public schools without violating anyone's legal rights.
Author: Kenneth M. Zeichner Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351579002 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education is a much-needed exploration of the unprecedented current controversies and debates over teacher education and professionalism. Set within the context of neo-liberal education reforms across the globe, the book explores how the current struggles over teaching and teacher education in the US came about, as well as reflections on where we should head in the future. Zeichner provides specific examples of work that moves teacher education toward greater congruency between ideals and practices, while outlining the basis for a new form of community-based teacher education, where universities and other program providers, local communities, school districts, and teacher unions share responsibility for the preparation of teachers. Ultimately, Zeichner problematizes an uncritical shift to more practice and clinical experience, and discusses the enduring problems of clinical teacher education that need to be addressed for this shift to be educative. Readers are sure to gain insight on transforming teacher education so it more adequately addresses the need to prepare teachers capable of providing a high-quality education with access to a rich and broad curriculum, and culturally and community responsive teaching for everyone’s children.
Author: Linda Perrone Rooney Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications ISBN: 9781585955541 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
In every lifetime a book comes along that can dramatically change lives--Habits of the Soul by Linda Perrone Rooney is such a book! In 40 days it can transform lives because it attends to the soul inside, a person's deepest inner being. It touches the very heart and spirit of readers and pays attention to their intimate relationship with God. Habits of the Soul embraces spiritual habits, ones that can completely transform ordinary daily actions into actions done on purpose.
Author: H. Lynn Erickson Publisher: Corwin ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 264
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The second edition provides educators with an updated perspective of current trends in curriculum and instruction. In this thoughtful "how-to" of curriculum design, educators will find practical structures and specific classroom examples of effective curriculum strategies.
Author: Rachael Kessler Publisher: ASCD ISBN: 141660443X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 203
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* How can educators and parents of diverse backgrounds come together to find ways to invite soul into schools? * How do educators address ''soul'' in education without violating the separation of church and state or the deeply held beliefs of families and students? In this book, Rachael Kessler shows how. Based on the deeply moving stories and profound questions of students themselves, each chapter responds to the yearnings young people express: Deep Connection, Meaning and Purpose, Silence, Joy, Creativity, Transcendence, and Initiation--each evokes a gateway to inviting soul into the clas.
Author: Mary Keator
Author: Mary Keator
Author: John P. Miller
Author: Margaret Benefiel
Author: Dennis Patrick Slattery
Author: Rachael Kessler
Author: Kenneth M. Zeichner
Author: Linda Perrone Rooney
Author: H. Lynn Erickson
Author: Rachael Kessler