Full Description
This book examines six psychological and spiritual giants that were working a half century ago whose insights are as powerful today as they were then—perhaps even more so given the current corporate agenda to standardize education and thereby take the soul out of it. Indeed, it is precisely because we are so aware of the impossible demands placed upon teachers these days, which overtax already valiantly devoted and terribly overworked teachers and which also continue to ignore the fact that the problems children face are not a product of our schools but of our society at large—that the authors have written this book. This book will help you renew your noble sense of mission so that, even in these trying times for teachers, you will feel more fulfilled in all that you accomplish, will discover ways to renew your vision of yourself as a teacher despite all the grossly and unjustly negative things that are said about teachers, and will find new ways of continue in your extremely important work.
Contents
Introduction: Foundations of the Teacher's Sense of Calling (Cliff)
Chapter One: Five Psychospiritual Thinkers of the 20th Century and What They Tell Us About the Teacher's Sense of Calling (Cliff)
Chapter Two: Jung: The Essentials (Cliff)
Chapter Three: Individuation and Vocation in the Second Half of Life (Cliff)
Chapter Four: Indivduation, the "Vocatus" and Teaching (Mark)
Chapter Five: Of Archetypes and Journeys: Case Studies (Mark)
Chapter Six: "The University of the Waves": An Encounter for Archetypal Reflectivity (Alexandra)
Conclusion: Reclaiming the Fire (Cliff)
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
About the Authors
