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The Heart of Higher Education


The Heart of Higher Education

A Call to Renewal
1. Aufl.

von: Parker J. Palmer, Arthur Zajonc, Megan Scribner, Mark Nepo

20,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 18.06.2010
ISBN/EAN: 9780470638446
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 256

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A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education. <p>From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of <i>The Courage to Teach,</i> and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to revisit the roots and reclaim the vision of higher education. <i>The Heart of Higher Education</i> proposes an approach to teaching and learning that honors the whole human being—mind, heart, and spirit—an essential integration if we hope to address the complex issues of our time. The book offers a rich interplay of analysis, theory, and proposals for action from two educators and writers who have contributed to developing the field of integrative education over the past few decades.</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Presents Parker Palmer’s powerful response to critics of holistic learning and Arthur Zajonc’s elucidation of the relationship between science, the humanities, and the contemplative traditions</li> </ul> <ul type="disc"> <li>Explores ways to take steps toward making colleges and universities places that awaken the deepest potential in students, faculty, and staff</li> </ul> <ul type="disc"> <li>Offers a practical approach to fostering renewal in higher education through collegiality and conversation</li> </ul> <p><i>The Heart of Higher Education</i> is for all who are new to the field of holistic education, all who want to deepen their understanding of its challenges, and all who want to practice and promote this vital approach to teaching and learning on their campuses.</p>
<p>Foreword v</p> <p><i>Mark Nepo</i></p> <p>Gratitudes xiii</p> <p>The Authors xv</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p>1 Toward a Philosophy of Integrative Education 19</p> <p>2 When Philosophy Is Put into Practice 35</p> <p>3 Beyond the Divided Academic Life 53</p> <p>4 Attending to Interconnection, Living the Lesson 77</p> <p>5 Experience, Contemplation, and Transformation 101</p> <p>6 Transformative Conversations on Campus 125</p> <p>Afterword 151</p> <p>About the Appendices: Experiments in Integrative Education 155</p> <p>Appendix A In the Classroom 157</p> <p>Appendix B Beyond the Classroom 175</p> <p>Appendix C Administrative and Campuswide Initiatives 195</p> <p>Notes 217</p> <p>Index 229</p>
Palmer and Zajonc have issued a compelling call for change and renewal in higher education. They show us how colleges and universities can be transformed by taking a more integrated approach to teaching and learning that focuses on the inner lives of their students and faculty.<br /> ” —Alexander and Helen Astin, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA <p>“At a moment when many are dreaming of an integrative form of higher education that unites intellectual rigor with compassion and love, Palmer and Zajonc invite us to engage in conversations designed to infuse the academy with meaning, purpose, and soul. For those who yearn to transform colleges and universities from sterile, vacuous spaces to places of hope, possibility, and respect for everything human, this is the book you have been waiting for.”<br /> —Laura I. Rendón, professor of higher education, Iowa State University, and author, <i>Sentipensante Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation</i></p> <p>“Parker Palmer and Arthur Zajonc call for a renewal of our commitment to inspiring deeper thinking and educating the whole person. This book should and will inspire debate about our larger purpose, about how we can go beyond the traditional silos in which we work for the sake of individual and institutional transformation.”<br /> —Anthony Marx, president, College</p> <p>“What should be at the center of our teaching and our students’ learning? Palmer and Zajonc take up this simple but daunting question and provide the most solid ground yet on which to hold a conversation about the heart of our enterprise. They reimagine higher education in a way commensurate with the magnitude of our problems and offer us practical paths toward implementation. Integrative education is the most important reformation of higher learning since the rise of the modern university. This book can help us achieve it.”<br /> —Anthony Lising Antonio, associate professor of education and associate director, Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research, Stanford University</p> <p>“[The book] strikes a welcome balance between theoretical claims and practical applications. I find [it] a worthy read for anyone interested in asking the deeper questions about what it means to educate an undergraduate. I encourage you to find the paragraphs that resonate most deeply with you, and to do the one thing the authors ask of us: have a meaningful conversation about higher education with a few colleagues. For, as they put it, ‘renewal…will germinate first in the soil of these caring and collegial conversations.’”<br /> —Allison Gale, Departmental Teaching Fellow for Earth and Planetary Sciences, for <i>The Bok Blog</i></p>
<p><b>PARKER J. PALMER</b> is a highly respected writer, teacher, and activist. His work speaks deeply to people in many walks of life, including education, medicine, religion, law, philanthropy, politics, and social change. Author of seven books, including the best sellers <i>The Courage to Teach</i> (now in its tenth anniversary edition), <i>Let Your Life Speak</i>, and <i>A Hidden Wholeness</i>, his work has been recognized with ten honorary doctorates and a number of national awards. Named one of the “most influential senior leaders” in higher education, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. </p> <p><b>ARTHUR ZAJONC</b> is professor of physics at Amherst College and has been a Fulbright professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He is the author of several books, including <i>Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love</i> and <i>Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind</i>. He currently directs the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, which supports appropriate inclusion of contemplative methods in higher education. <p><b>MEGAN SCRIBNER</b> is an editor and writer who has worked with numerous foundations and educational organizations. She is coeditor of <i>Teaching with Fire</i> and <i>Leading from Within</i> and coauthor of <i>The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal</i>. She serves as an advisor to the Fetzer Institute.
<p><i>The Heart of Higher Education</i> is an invitation to everyone who cares about the academy to revisit its roots and help reclaim its highest calling. </p> <p>Parker J. Palmer, best-selling author of <i>The Courage to Teach</i> and founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics and director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, advocate a holistic approach to teaching and learning that honors the whole human being—mind, heart, and spirit. <i>The Heart of Higher Education</i> offers a rich interplay of analysis, theory, and action options and models to help colleges and universities become places that awaken the deepest potential in students, faculty, and staff. The authors propose an approach to educational renewal grounded in collegiality and conversation. <p><i>The Heart of Higher Education</i> is for all who are new to the field of integrative education, all who want to deepen their understanding of its challenges and prospects, and all who want to practice and promote this vital approach to teaching and learning on their campuses.

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