Full Description
Originally published in 1988, The Holistic Curriculum addresses the problem of fragmentation in education through a connected curriculum of integrative approaches to teaching and learning. John P. Miller, author of more than seventeen books on holistic education, discusses the theoretical foundations of the holistic curriculum and particularly its philosophical, psychological, and social connections.
Tracing the history of holistic education from its beginnings, this revised and expanded third edition features insights into Indigenous approaches to education while also expanding upon the six curriculum connections: subject, community, thinking, earth, body-mind, and soul. This edition also includes an introduction by leading Indigenous educator Greg Cajete as well as a dialogue between the author and Four Arrows, author of Teaching Truly, about the relationship between holistic education and Indigenous education.
Contents
Part One. Holistic Curriculum: The Context
1. Holistic Curriculum: The Why and the What
2. The Perennial Philosophy
3. The Psychological Context: The Unconditioned Self
4. The Social Context: An Ecological/Interdependent Perspective
5. Historical Background
Part Two. Holistic Curriculum: Practice
6. Intuitive Connections
7. Body-Mind Connections
8. Subject Connections
9. Community Connections
10 Earth Connections
11. Soul Connections
12. Implementing and Evaluating the Holistic Curriculum
