Education and the Soul: Toward a Spiritual Curriculum
- ISBN-10
- 0791443426
- ISBN-13
- 9780791443422
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-01-01
- Publisher
- SUNY Press
- Author
- John P. Miller
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.
Get the book
Similar books
-
The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School
By Rachael KesslerIs there a greater force at work? Can humans tap into that force, and bring it into their daily lives? Do our minds have barriers to understanding certain things, like everlasting and always? Or are there ways to open up parts of the ...
-
The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research and Institutional Life for the Twenty-first Century
By Margaret Benefiel, Bo Karen LeeThis 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?
-
The Soul of Learning: rituals of awakening, magnetic pedagogy, and living justice
By Vajra Watson, Mary KeatorThe 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.
-
Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future?
By Harry LewisA Harvard professor and former Dean of Harvard College offers his provocative analysis of how America's great universities are failing students and the nation
-
The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University
By Ellen Schrecker... handicap, or Vietnam-era veteran status” were, Judge Avern Cohn declared in 1989, “constitutionally overbroad. ... epithets or other expressive behavior directed at an individual” when such behavior “demean[s] the race, sex, ...
-
Restoring the Soul to Education: Equity Closes the Achievement Gap
By Carmen I. Ayala, Bea Young, Michael L. KilgoreMainly aimed at educators and administrators, this book is also relevant for any parent or community member concerned with equity and quality education.
-
Teacher Education and Teaching as Struggling for the Soul: A Critical Ethnography
By Thomas S. PopkewitzChallenging conventional ways of thinking about school reforms and teacher education, this book analyses how the "knowledge systems" which organize how teachers’ observe, supervise, and evaluate children produces norms that have the ...
-
Apprenticed To Spirit: The Education of a Soul
By David SpanglerThat was the connection and teamwork between his world and ours, the non-physical and the physical. ... These challenges were quite apart from the issue of simply not believing in the unseen worlds or that non-physical beings existed at ...
-
The Wheels of Soul in Education: An Inspiring International Dynamic
This book boldly re-frames the basis of our collective approach to education.
-
Struggling for the Soul: The Politics of Schooling and the Construction of the Teacher
By Thomas S. PopkewitzIn Struggling for the Soul, author Thomas Popkewitz tackles the persistent concern about unequal educational opportunities in the United States.