Parker J Palmer, Arthur Zajonc, Megan Scribner

Gebundenes Buch

The Heart of Higher Education

Beschreibung

The Heart of Higher Education is an invitation to everyone who cares about the academy to revisit its roots and help reclaim its highest calling. Parker J. Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach 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. The Heart of Higher Education 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. The Heart of Higher Education 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.

Autor

Parker Palmer is one of our wisest minds and lives and one of my greatest mentors. He has the spirit of a poet and the stature of a prophet. There is no one I'd rather eavesdrop on as he ponders ''the brink of everything.'' This book is a companion for not merely surviving a fractured world, but embodying - like Parker - the fiercely honest and gracious wholeness that is ours to claim at every stage of life. -KRISTA TIPPETT, founder of On Being Studios, author of Einstein's God and Becoming Wise, winner of the 2014 National Humanities Medal

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780470487907
• ISBN-10: 0470487909
• Artikelnr.: 29337486

Rezensionen

Palmer and Zajonc have issued a compelling call for change andrenewal in higher education. They show us how colleges anduniversities can be transformed by taking a more integratedapproach to teaching and learning that focuses on the inner livesof their students and faculty.
" --Alexander and Helen Astin, Higher Education ResearchInstitute, UCLA

"At a moment when many are dreaming of an integrative formof higher education that unites intellectual rigor with compassionand love, Palmer and Zajonc invite us to engage in conversationsdesigned to infuse the academy with meaning, purpose, and soul. Forthose who yearn to transform colleges and universities fromsterile, vacuous spaces to places of hope, possibility, and respectfor

everything human, this is the book you have been waitingfor."
--Laura I. Rendón, professor of higher education, IowaState University, and author, Sentipensante Pedagogy: Educatingfor Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation

"Parker Palmer and Arthur Zajonc call for a renewal of ourcommitment to inspiring deeper thinking and educating the wholeperson. This book should and will inspire debate about our largerpurpose, about how we can go beyond the traditional silos in whichwe work for the sake of individual and institutionaltransformation."
--Anthony Marx, president, College

"What should be at the center of our teaching and ourstudents' learning? Palmer and Zajonc take up this simple butdaunting question and provide the most solid ground yet on which tohold a conversation about the heart of our enterprise. Theyreimagine higher education in a way commensurate with the magnitudeof our problems and offer us practical paths toward implementation.Integrative education is the most important reformation of higherlearning since the rise of the modern university. This book canhelp us achieve it."
--Anthony Lising Antonio, associate professor of education andassociate director, Stanford Institute for Higher EducationResearch, Stanford University

"[The book] strikes a welcome balance between theoreticalclaims and practical applications. I find [it] a worthy read foranyone interested in asking the deeper questions about what itmeans to educate an undergraduate. I encourage you to find theparagraphs that resonate most deeply with you, and to do the onething the authors ask of us: have a meaningful conversation abouthigher education with a few colleagues. For, as they put it,'renewal...will germinate first in the soil of thesecaring and collegial conversations.'"
--Allison Gale, Departmental Teaching Fellow for Earth andPlanetary Sciences, for The Bok Blog