Full Description
Providing a comprehensive overview of holistic education's history, conceptions, practices, and research, this Handbook presents an up-to-date, global picture of the field. Organized in five sections, the Handbook lays out the field's theoretical and historical foundations; offers examples of holistic education in practice with regard to schools, programs, and pedagogies at all levels; presents research methods used in holistic education; outlines the growing effort among holistic educators to connect holistic teaching and learning with research practice; and examines present trends and future areas of interest in program development, inquiry, and research. This volume is a must-have resource for researchers and practitioners and serves as an essential foundational text for courses in the field.
Contents
Section 1 Foundations 1. Holistic Education: A Brief History 2. Experiencing Nets of Holism through the Threshold Body 3. Beauty and Learning 4. From a Deeper Place: Indigenous Worlding as the Next Step in Holistic Education 5. Eastern Philosophy and Holistic Education 6. Care of the Soul in Education Section 2 Teaching/Learning/Curriculum 7. Addressing the Needs of the Whole Child: Implications for Young Children and Adults Who Care for Them 8. Moving the Spirit: Holistic Education and Young Children 9. Sustainable Peace for the Planet 10. Core Reflection: Nurturing Human Potential in Students and Teachers 11. Self-development as Pedagogy in Teacher Education 12. Holistic-Contemplative Pedagogy for 21st Century Teacher Education: Education as Healing 13. Integrated Curriculum for the 21st Century 14. Holistic Assessment: Assessing Dialogically, Personally, Individually 15. Transformation Through Art and Vision: An Indigenous Perspective Section 3 Examples of Holistic Education, Practices 16. Waldorf Education: Freeing the Human Being 17. Holism in Montessori 18. Cultivating the Abilities of the Heart: Educating through a Pedagogy of Love 19. Lhomon Education: Teaching for Well-being in Bhutan 20. The School Forest Movement in South Korea from a Holistic Perspective 21. Madrasa Schools in East Africa: An Islamic Perspective in Holistic Education 22. Queer Bodies and Holistic Imaginaries 23. Holistic Features of Traditional Chinese Spiritual Practices for Personal Cultivation Section 4 Research 24. The Coexistence of Spirituality and Anxiety: Mothers and Daughters 25. Embodied Inquiry in Holistic Education 26. The Curriculum of Character: Poetic Ruminations of Growing Old(er) 27. Conducting Narrative Inquiry Research from a Holistic Perspective: Honouring Story and Soul 28. Sound Escapes: An Holistic Approach to Spirituality and Music Education 29. Research in, on and with Waldorf Education in the Netherlands 30. Holistic Education in Thai Buddhist Schools 31. Many Layers, Many Dimensions: Building a New Science of Holistic Education Section 5 Final Reflections 32. A Manifesto of Holistic Education: A Declaration for Unity and Personal Choice 33. Belonging, Identity and Meaning Making-the Essence of Spirituality: Implications for Holistic Education Programs in Plural Societies 34. Pedagogical Mediation as a Foundation for Doctoral Study at the Universidad De La Salle in Costa Rica 35. African Indigenous Education in Kenyan Universities: A Decolonizing and Transformational Tool 36. Hebraism, Hellenism and Holism: Finding Sources of Life in Western Culture 37. Toward an Integrative Mind
