Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education
Breaking New Ground
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2005
- Category
- Spirituality, Curricula, Humanism
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780791463512
- Publish Date
- Feb 2005
- List Price
- $128.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780791463529
- Publish Date
- Feb 2005
- List Price
- $45.95
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Description
Explores the theory, practice, and poetics of spiritual and holistic education.
In Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education, scholars from around the globe address the theory, practice, and poetics of holistic education. Some of the topics explored include educating the soul; partnership education; nourishing adolescents' spirituality; education and the modern assault on being human; the Eros of teaching; personal creativity as soul work; pedagogies of compassion; and meditation, masculinity, and meaningful life.
About the authors
John P. Miller is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He is the author or editor of 17 books on Holistic Learning and contemplative practices in education.