Full Description
This is a book about ourselves, and our world, but it is also a book about, and for education. Education is undergoing constant scrutiny - as it should. But what makes, or made, an education successful is too often left behind in the shadows when we focus too closely on what we think should be in the spotlight. It is the author's belief that we are entering a period of time when re-looking at how these things interact and intersect will be pertinent to their and our success.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
PART 1 The Whole Big Picture
Chapter 1: It's All Connected
Inter-connectedness and Interactions
Intra-connectedness and Reactions
Chapter 2: The Myopic View
Can't See the Forest for the Trees
Can't See the Neighborhood for the Houses.
PART 2 The Whole of Education
Chapter 3: The Whole Approach
Back-to-Basics or Fostering Synergy?
Wholeness, Interconnectedness, and Education
Moving Away from the Myopic and Towards the Whole
Focusing on the Purpose
Educational Hoarders
Chapter 4: A Whole Education
Hidden Curriculum
Socially and Emotionally
The Absence of a Core Reason
Finland and the End of Subjects
Chapter 5: From the Whole Child to the Whole Community
It Often Starts with Health but Ends with Education
Whole Child
Whole School
Whole Community
Chapter 6: Health, Government, and the World
Whole Health
Whole Government
Whole World
PART 3: Whole-ness and What to do
Chapter 7: How it happens
PBL, Service Learning, and Taking the Broader View
Whole-Part-Whole
Commonality of Objective and Mindset
Chapter 8: A Collaborative, Collective Focus
Weaving
Networks and Working Those Nets
Chapter 9: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts
References
