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The Integrative Mind. Transformative Education for a World on Fire.
Tobin Hart
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Hardback. With practical applications and contemporary research, Tobin Hart explores the five "missing minds"-contemplative, empathic, beautiful, embodied, and imaginative-which enable us to experience the world as a communion of subjects, thereby deepening our understanding and humanity. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: JNC; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
In a world on fire with unprecedented possibility as well as peril, what kind of mind is needed in order to thrive and survive? How can education help develop human potential to be a match for this reality? The Integrative Mind radically updates the vision that we hold for education, the pedagogy that can help us achieve it, and the human consciousness that underlies it all. Consciousness and culture has been thrown out of balance by the neglect of key ways of meeting the world. The solution at the edge of this new episteme is not so much about what we know but instead about how we know. With practical applications and contemporary research, Tobin Hart shows that the way into the future requires a recalibration of mind. Hart explores five “missing minds”: contemplative, empathic, beautiful, embodied, and imaginative. These help open the aperture of consciousness enabling us to move, as Thomas Berry said, from seeing the world as a collection of objects to experiencing it as a communion of subjects. The result is an essential deepening of understanding and our humanity.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
Number of Pages
134
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781475807004
SKU
V9781475807004
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99-15
About Tobin Hart
Tobin Hart, PhD is professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia. He is co-founder of The ChildSpirit Institute, a nonprofit educational and research hub devoted to understanding and nurturing the inner life of children and adults. His work explores consciousness at the nexus of spirituality, psychology and education. His most recent books include: The Four Virtues, The Secret Spiritual World of Children, and From Information to Transformation: Education for the Evolution of Consciousness.
Reviews for The Integrative Mind. Transformative Education for a World on Fire.
In this book Tobin Hart has given an inspiring vision for education with his conception of mind. His vision, rooted in recent research and the wisdom traditions, provides an imaginative path for education in the 21st century. This is an invaluable contribution to the literature on transformative education.
Jack Miller, PhD. , professor, curriculum, teaching and learning, O.I.S. E., University of Toronto and author of “Educating for Wisdom and Compassion and Education and the Soul” I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The readability, clarity, and substance are qualities that will be appreciated by any reader of education. Tobin Hart is a voice that needs to be heard. Not only does he name the problem and articulate the essential questions confronting American education today, but he goes on to frame the conversation for a new vision of education. His "five minds" are eminently practical with examples and applications that every educator can put into practice. This is essential reading - possibly the best book on education I've read in a long time.
Sam Crowell, faculty for the earth charter center and UNESCO chair for ESD and author of “Emergent Teaching: A Path of Creativity, Significance, and Transformation” Tobin Hart explores and illuminates the richest dimensions of the human body-mind, most of which are misunderstood or disdained by contemporary education. Drawing from ancient to contemporary sources, The Integrative Mind is enhanced by exercises that lead the reader to first-hand understanding of essential domains of deep learning. This book will enrich educational reform efforts that value meaningful and profoundly holistic education.
Richard C. Brown, professor of contemplative education at Naropa University At a time when the understandable desire to bring all students up to a higher level of achievement has become paramount in American education, Tobin Hart reminds us that there are other, equally important dimensions to education that are being neglected. In this book he explores the many ways in which balance can be restored to the educational process so that we can foster not only a more knowledgeable and skillful population, but also one that is more humane and enlightened.
Peter Laurence, Ed.D., education as transformation
Jack Miller, PhD. , professor, curriculum, teaching and learning, O.I.S. E., University of Toronto and author of “Educating for Wisdom and Compassion and Education and the Soul” I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The readability, clarity, and substance are qualities that will be appreciated by any reader of education. Tobin Hart is a voice that needs to be heard. Not only does he name the problem and articulate the essential questions confronting American education today, but he goes on to frame the conversation for a new vision of education. His "five minds" are eminently practical with examples and applications that every educator can put into practice. This is essential reading - possibly the best book on education I've read in a long time.
Sam Crowell, faculty for the earth charter center and UNESCO chair for ESD and author of “Emergent Teaching: A Path of Creativity, Significance, and Transformation” Tobin Hart explores and illuminates the richest dimensions of the human body-mind, most of which are misunderstood or disdained by contemporary education. Drawing from ancient to contemporary sources, The Integrative Mind is enhanced by exercises that lead the reader to first-hand understanding of essential domains of deep learning. This book will enrich educational reform efforts that value meaningful and profoundly holistic education.
Richard C. Brown, professor of contemplative education at Naropa University At a time when the understandable desire to bring all students up to a higher level of achievement has become paramount in American education, Tobin Hart reminds us that there are other, equally important dimensions to education that are being neglected. In this book he explores the many ways in which balance can be restored to the educational process so that we can foster not only a more knowledgeable and skillful population, but also one that is more humane and enlightened.
Peter Laurence, Ed.D., education as transformation