Educating from the Heart

Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Av Aostre N. Johnson, Marilyn Webb Neagley

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Educating from the Heart: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education is based on the questions: "What does it mean to educate from the heart? What does it mean to educate with spirit?" It offers both theoretical overviews and practical approaches for educators, academics, education students and parents who are interested in transforming schools. Well-respected voices in the field of education provide a framework that includes recent findings from the world of neuroscience, as well as fresh perspectives about traditional wisdom. Practicing educators describe methods directly applicable in classrooms. In addition, many chapters emphasize the importance of educators attending to their own inner lives. The book encourages reinvigorating approaches to learning and teaching that can easily be integrated into both public and private K-12 school classrooms, with many ideas also applicable to higher education. It supports an educational system based on the beliefs that heart and spirit are intertwined with mind and intellect, and that inner peace, wisdom, compassion, and conscience can be developed together with academic content and skills.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-06-16
Mått156 x 230 x 14 mm
Vikt304 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor196
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781610483162

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Aostre N. Johnson is a professor of education at Saint Michael's College in Vermont, where she teaches courses on child development and integrated curriculum theory and practice, and also directs the master's degree curriculum concentration. She has published a number of articles and co-edited a book related to creative, spiritual, and ethical approaches to education and has also founded and directed holistic schools for children. Marilyn Webb Neagley has worked both locally and nationally for over forty years with non-profit organizations as a CEO, volunteer, trustee and/or consultant. She was most recently the recipient of an IPPY gold medal for best northeastern non-fiction for her book of reflections, Walking through the Seasons.

Chapter 1 Foreword: The Spirit Dimension of EducationChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 AcknowledgmentsChapter 4 IntroductionPart 5 Section I—OverviewChapter 6 Developing Spirit Related Capacities of Children and AdolescentsChapter 7 Supporting Inner Wisdom in Public SchoolsChapter 8 Developing Mindfulness and Emotional Self Regulation in American EducationChapter 9 Nurturing the Spirit through LiteratureChapter 10 The Six Passages of Childhood—A Model for School-based Rites of PassageChapter 11 Paying Attention to the Whole SelfPart 12 Section II—PracticeChapter 13 Deepening Presence and Interconnection in the ClassroomChapter 14 The Yogi in the ClassroomChapter 15 Simple in MeansChapter 16 The Inner Life of TeachingChapter 17 Integrating the Spirit with Total Body FitnessChapter 18 Stress Reduction in a Middle Level Social Studies ClassChapter 19 Teaching Children EmpathyJessica ToulisChapter 20 Counseling from the HeartMadelyn NashChapter 21 Nurturing Childrenís Inner Resources—An Elementary School GuideAuriel GrayChapter 22 ConclusionAostre N. Johnson and Marilyn Webb NeagleyChapter 23 Biographical Sketches

This book brings together some of the renowned voices in the field of education and spirituality so that each chapter offers up-to-date research and insights that inform and enlighten classroom theory and practice. The editors have carefully structured the contents so that there is a fluidity of movement from theory to practice throughout the book, thereby raising its appeal and access to both academics and teachers. It is a worthwhile resource for pre-service and postgraduate education programs, as well as for classroom teachers.