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This book examines six psychological and spiritual giants that will help inspire teacher renewal.
List of contents
Introduction: Foundations of the Teacher's Sense of Calling (Cliff)
Chapter One: Five Psychospiritual Thinkers of the 20th Century and What They Tell Us About the Teacher's Sense of Calling (Cliff)
Chapter Two: Jung: The Essentials (Cliff)
Chapter Three: Individuation and Vocation in the Second Half of Life (Cliff)
Chapter Four: Indivduation, the "Vocatus" and Teaching (Mark)
Chapter Five: Of Archetypes and Journeys: Case Studies (Mark)
Chapter Six: "The University of the Waves": An Encounter for Archetypal Reflectivity (Alexandra)
Conclusion: Reclaiming the Fire (Cliff)
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
About the Authors
About the author
Clifford Mayes, Ph.D., Psy.D., received a doctorate in the History of U.S. Education from the University of Utah and a doctorate in Psychology from the Southern California University for Professional Studies. Until his retirement, he was a professor of education at Brigham Young University and is now an adjunct professor of psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. Mayes has authored 10 books and 40 scholarly articles in psychology, educational psychology, curriculum theory, and multiculturalism.
Mark R. Grandstaff, Ph.D., has a dual degree in American History and Institutional Culture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Having written four books and over seventy articles, he has taught at Brigham Young University (emeritus associate professor), the University of California at Berkeley (associate professor), and the University of Maryland, University College. Dr. Grandstaff is currently a fellow of the James MacGregor Burns Institute of Strategic Leadership, College Park.
Alexandra Fidyk, Ph.D., serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Jungian Studies. A past President of the Jungian Society of Scholarly Studies and now joint editor of Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place, Fidyk is a Certified Jungian Psychotherapist, an Integrated Body Psychotherapist, a Constellation & Family System therapist, and a lover of horses, cats, and nature.
Summary
This book examines six psychological and spiritual giants that will help inspire teacher renewal.
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Set with care in a context of Buber, Tillich, and others, Reclaiming the Fire is an enlightening exploration of Jung as a source of symbols for education. With lifespan developmental psychology as an overarching theme, the authors illustrate that the purpose and practice of teaching is derived ultimately from meaning. And meaning, as to Jung, is an uncovering of the Self in our conflicted, ego-gripped world.
