Spirituality, mythopoesis & learning
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Spirituality, mythopoesis & learning

Edited by Peter Willis, Timothy Leonard, Anne Morrison, and Steven Hodge.
ISBN: 978-1921214-57-8 B4 294pp
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This collection of essays explores the mythopoetic and spiritual elements of a pedagogy that seeks to encourage 'imagistic' thinking and learning in order to enrich the more logical and rational world of science.

In this context, learning is understood broadly to include the gaining of skills and information, intertwined with processes of personal and social change. For the scholars and educators from across Australia, UK and North America who have contributed to this volume, learning is never simply an isolated behaviour but rather a personal and social act in which morality and ethics are necessarily implicated. In this book, they explore ways in which learning can be enriched (or impaired?) by reflective narratives (the work of mythopoesis) and underpinned (or undermined?) by a cultivation of different forms of transcendence (the work of spirituality).

The first chapters of this volume look at the links between spirituality, mythopoesis and learning, traversing questions of endurance of hardship, art, philosophy and spiritual conviction. The second series of essays explores the applications of spirituality and mythopoesis to learning in both formal and informal settings, and during various life stages.

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Contents

  1. Introduction
    Peter Willis and Anne Morrison

    2. Part 1: Perspectives

  2. De profundis: spirituality, mythopoesis and learning for hard times
    Peter Willis
  3. Shoes for the journey of life: art and mythopoesis
    Rod Pattenden
  4. A dialogue on love and curriculum studies
    Timothy Leonard and Sam Rocha
  5. The return of the gods: Heidegger and mythopoetic curriculum theory
    Steven Hodge
  6. The mythopoetic approach to belief in God: experience, imagination and faith
    David Tacey
  7. The mythopoetic character of religious belief
    Robert Crotty
  8. Slowliness: spirituality in a speedy world
    Bernie Neville
  9. Pursuing a deconstructive subjectivity in education: the case of equanimity meditation
    Robert Hattam
  10. Wyrd knowledge: towards an understanding of spirituality through reflective practice and mythopoesis
    Cheryl Hunt

    11. Part 2: Applications

  11. Two teachers
    Catherine Madsen
  12. Disclosing self through essay writing: glimpses of ontological transformation
    Maria Piantanida
  13. Rhythm, ritual and reverence: practical spirituality in the Waldorf curriculum
    Tom Stehlik
  14. Engaging the heart and soul of our communities through community celebrations and gatherings
    Julieanne Hilbers
  15. Spirit place: being present in the land
    John Cameron and Vicki King
  16. In border country: connecting self, the other and spirit in transformative learning
    Linden West
  17. Being for the world: the mythopoetics of a mystical orientation
    Jennifer Sinclair
  18. Story giving birth to hope: spirituality and models of learning in Rachel's Vineyard Ministry
    Peter Maher
  19. Learning to die, learning to live: mythopoesis in the baby boomers' search for wisdom
    Meg Hegarty
  20. Let me tell you a story: an example of the mythopoetic in palliative care education
    Margaret Byrne
  21. In my other life I'm a shaman
    John Knight
  • Contributors
  • Index

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