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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface by Dennis Patrick Slattery  

Introduction by Jennifer Leigh Selig  

“City, Soul and Myth”
James Hillman

“The Dance of Learning”
Thomas Moore

“Chronos vs. Kairos: A Plea for Restoration of Empathy and Imagination in History Teaching”
Ruth Meyer

“Good Teaching Doesn’t Count!”
David Miller

“Finding the Philosopher’s Stone”
          Robin Gordon

“Restoring Soul to Teaching: Reflections on the Division of Spirit from Matter in Teaching and Learning”
Betty J. McEady

“Trying to Touch What Matters: Confessions of a High School Dropout”
Jennifer Leigh Selig

“Soul-Centered Education: An Interview With Stephen Aizenstat"
         Nancy Galindo

“What White Whale Breaches? Classroom as Sacred Space”
          Dennis Patrick Slattery

“Spiritual Resonance in the Classroom”
         Christopher M. Bache

“Poetic Awareness: Imagining and the Experience of Soul”
          Matthew Green

“’Till We Have Faces’: Image as Psyche”
         Elizabeth Fergus-Jean

“Teaching Thinking”
Edward S. Casey

“The Eros of Teaching”
         Christine Downing

“The Authority of the Teacher”
Claudia Allums

“Teaching Joseph Campbell and Arthurian Romance”
         Evans Lansing Smith

“Under the Helmet”
Mary Aswell Doll

“Teaching as Mothering the Soul”
          Rosemarie Anderson

In this collection of essays, Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig bring together eighteen master teachers—from elementary, high school, undergraduate, graduate, and adult education and across many disciplines–to share their reflections on reviving, revisioning, and renewing the soul of learning.

What timeless and perennial qualities of excellence are germane to teaching and learning both of which serve the life of imagination and the further cultivation of the soul? The answers rest in these essays themselves, which contain repositories of wisdom by teachers with decades of experience in the classroom, whose only mandate in contributing to this volume was to speak their own truths that have informed thousands of learners young and old.

Reimagining Education: Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning
by Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig, Editors
ISBN: 978-1-882670-63-5
212 pp.     $25.95


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