On Spiritual Strivings

Cynthia B. Dillard is Associate Professor of Education at The Ohio State University. In June 2001 the community of Mpeasem, Ghana, honored her efforts in building a community center and preschool there by enstooling her as Queen Mother Nana Mansa II, during a traditional African ritual ceremony.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments 1. The Substance of Things Hoped For, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Examining an Endarkened Epistemology in Educational Research and Leadership 2. What Is It and Where Does It Live? Toward Defining Spirit within a Research and Teaching Paradigm 3. Walking Ourselves Back Home: The Education of Teachers With/In the World 4. Looking at the Real Nature of Things: Life and Death as One Eternal Moment in Teaching and Research 5. Suddenly but Always Queen: Embracing a Methodology of Surrender in Research and Teaching 6. Akwanbo: From Speaking Words to Inviting the Voice of Spirit in Research 7. Out of My Darkness I Find My Light: Naming Self, Naming Spirit 8. Coming "Full Circle": Creating and Being on Purpose NotesBibliographyIndex