Sloan argues that a fundamental transformation of our ideas about knowing, our selves, and our world is not only possible, but necessary. The key to this transformation lies in an understanding of "insight-imagination"--the involvement of the thinking, feeling, willing, valuing person in knowing. The possibility and mode of effecting this transformation is the subject of Insight-Imagination. Sloan examines alternative and potentially more constructive intellectual approaches as developed in the radical humanities and the world's great religious traditions. The author explores the role of education in the transformation of consciousness and the effect of this transformation on education.

Insight-Imagination: The Emancipation of Thought and the Modern World

Politics & Social Sciences

Sloan, Douglas

Philosophy

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A Critique of National Academic Goals, Standards, and Educational Curriculum (Ron Miller)

Educational Freedom for a Democratic Society: A Critique of National Standards, Goals and Curriculum

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Established by A.S. Neill in the 1920s, Summerhill is one of the most famous schools in the world. In this book, author Matthew Appleton provides an insightful account of his years as a houseparent at the school.

A Free Range Childhood : Self-Regulation at Summerhill School

Appleton, Matthew

Caring for New Life: Essays on Holistic Education (Foundations of Holistic Education Series)

Miller, Ron

Building on the metaphor of a hawk circling a field, Kennedy develops the concept that there are four fundamental approaches that human beings have towards learning, only one of which is the traditional, analytic, professorial model. Written for practical teachers who are looking for better ways to engage all of their students in learning, Kennedy shows how teachers can determine their own dominant learning perspectives and recognize that many of their students approach education with far different viewpoints and expectations. 
He follows with specific suggestions how to match each student's approach to learning with the subject matter at hand and to extend their repertoire of talents and perspectives through homework. For Kennedy, classrooms that truly honor each student's individuality must by definition be active, working models of democracy. True educational reform for him fundamentally requires schools that no longer feel compelled to demand standardization and regimentation, but schools that accept—and even encourage—genuine educational diversity and individuality. 
Lessons from the Hawk is a wise yet very practical book for teachers and administrators who know that creating good schools involves more than scoring high on national tests, that it really means schools that care about students as individuals by understanding, honoring, and developing the learning perspectives that they bring into the classroom.

Lessons from the Hawk

KENNEDY, MARK

Under the Tough Old Stars: Ecopedagogical Essays (Foundations of Holistic Education Series)

Jardine, David

Traditional forms of education have privileged cerebral learning without considering the importance of the whole person and the environment. What happens when we allow knowing to emerge through our senses, emotions, language, intuitions, and relationships? What views of the "body" help us to rethink and revitalize our interactions with the world? This collection of essays explores the possibilities that may unfold through these questions. The authors integrate theory with personal and pedagogical experience to enact their understandings of bodymind relationships. 
This book is for teachers, teacher educators, and others who are interested in fresh approaches to holistic and embodied forms of pedagogy, research, and curriculum in education.

Unfolding Bodymind : Exploring Possibility Through Education (Foundations of Holistic Education Series)

What do Buddhism and other Asia traditions have to tell us in the West about the moral, ecological, and spiritual dimensions of Education? Japanese educational theorist Yoshiharu Nakagawa presents an insightful account of Eastern philosophical traditions and demonstrates their relevance to the emerging Western movement known as holistic education.

Education for Awakening: An Eastern Approach to Holistic Education (Foundations of Holistic Education Series)

Nakagawa, Yoshiharu

Nurturing Our Wholeness: Perspectives on Spirituality in Education

Holistic Education: An Analysis of Its Ideas and Nature (The Foundations of Holistic Education Series, V. 8)

Forbes, Scott H.

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