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Spirituality, Action, & Pedagogy: Teaching from the Heart invites the reader to participate in a personal exploration of what it means to consciously seek the heart of education. The authors in this collection - practitioners in higher education and teaching in such diverse areas as educational foundations, communication, theater, sociology, reading and literacy, and performance studies - respond to this challenge by striking the most personal chords of their lived experience. As they relate their tales of spirituality and teaching, the reader will be coaxed into confronting the question of what it means to teach. Spirituality, Action, & Pedagogy addresses the integration of spirituality into pedagogical practice by providing cutting-edge examples of applications in classroom settings.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Diana Denton/Will Ashton: Introduction: Teaching from the Heart - Tony Arduini: The Songbird in the Superstore: How the Spirit Enters the Classroom - John T. Warren/Deanna L. Fassett: Spiritually Drained and Sexually Denied: Sketching an Engaged Pedagogy - Robert Hostetter: From the Heart of the Heart of Learning - Cathy Toll: Unceasing Change Turns the Wheel of Life - Will Ashton: Tale of a Sorcerer's Apprentice - Maria Schmeeckle: Inner Calm, Holistic Human Beings, and Life Purpose - Peninnah Schram: Learning Wisdom from the Jewish Oral Tradition - Whitney Hoth: Local Teaching: The Spirit of Place - Andrew Houston: The Spirit of the Real in Theatre Education - Denise A. Menchaca: Healing Susto: Fragments of Postcritical Pedagogy - Celeste N. Snowber: Leaning Absolutes: Honoring the Detours in Our Lives - Diana Denton: The Heart's Geography: Compassion as Practice - Christopher N. Poulos: Spirited Teaching: A Pedagogy of Courage.
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«This book is filled with wonderful phenomenological descriptions of holistic education in action. It is an inspirational gathering of stories and reflections demonstrating what is possible in our relationships with our students and each other when we reclaim the spiritual dimension of teaching and learning. The authors challenge us to engage with our students as whole human beings, allowing them and ourselves to live deeply into experiences of love and faith, feeling and spontaneity, self-awareness and community.» (Ron Miller, Author of 'Caring for New Life: Essays on Holistic Education')
«'Spirituality, Action, & Pedagogy: Teaching from the Heart' attempts to overcome, as one author names it, the 'poverty of abstraction and disconnection' that has dulled and distanced so much of contemporary schooling, especially higher education. The antidote, as presented in these thirteen short chapters, returns the human heart and soul to the curriculum. Each chapter from these university faculty members leads with often touching, personal accounts of teaching and living that generally form the story line for down-to-earth insights as to how we might nourish classrooms and students that are uncontracted, courageous, vulnerable, and awake in the midst of life and learning. This is an intimate, hopeful, and thoughtful collection that is rich with nuance. It will be a service to any teacher who longs for the day when education becomes a wisdom tradition.» (Tobin Hart, Professor of Psychology, State University of West Georgia; Author of 'The Secret Spiritual World of Children' and 'From Information to Transformation: Education for the Evolution of Consciousness')
