Flourishing in the holistic classroom

"In a time of unprecedented changes globally, Flourishing in the Holistic Classroom offers an alternative educational model to mechanistic learning; one that is dynamic and adaptive. The book offers key principles, dispositions, and practices that holistic educators draw from to create learning...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Tucker, Lisa Marie (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., 2021.
SeriesCurrent perspectives in holistic education
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806603947
DOI10.1108/978-1-64802-548-8
Physical Description1 online resource (186 pages.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / John (Jack) Miller
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • From assembly line to nautilus shell
  • Flourishing in the classroom
  • Keen and curious: pedagogy
  • Dreams, imagination, and vision
  • Dream wisdom: if the shoe does not fit
  • This was AI? sobering thought
  • A vision for the classroom
  • Reimagining education with teacher candidates
  • Off the assembly line: recalling the self
  • Holism: reimagining education's framework
  • The way forward: holistic curriculum
  • Holistic teachers and schools
  • Holistic experiences for teacher candidates
  • Author note
  • The heart of community
  • Planting seeds: eight days of community building
  • Hospitality
  • Deep listening
  • Learning in AI? holistic context: the Findhorn Foundation and community
  • History and founding principles
  • Findhorn Foundation College
  • Developing AI? learning community
  • The gift of inner listening
  • Being real: paying attention
  • Pausing . . . being . . . contemplative practice in the classroom
  • Teacher presence
  • Working with fear: being vulnerable
  • Challenging behaviors
  • Fear
  • Facing our fears
  • Dissipating fear
  • The seed
  • The inner lives of teachers and students
  • Holistic curriculum
  • Quest for wholeness: spirituality in preservice teacher education
  • Spirituality and religion
  • Characteristics of spirituality
  • Check your spirit at the door: spirituality in postsecondary education
  • Spirituality in teacher education
  • Implications
  • Author note
  • Voice and choice: inquiry-based learning
  • Inquiry-based learning
  • Peer teaching
  • The arts camp
  • Initial planning sessions
  • Arts camp learning objectives
  • The arts camp: what we did
  • Teaching to the spirit
  • Celebration of learning
  • Feedback from the students and parents/caregivers
  • Implications
  • My journey
  • Teachers' experiences of incorporating holistic principles Into their practice
  • The invitation.