Integral Education: New Directions in Higher Learning

✍ Scribed by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, Jonathan Reams, Olen Gunnlaugs

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 403
• Edition: Hardcover
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Summary

Leading researchers and practitioners explore the frontiers of education from an Integral perspective.

The educational challenges faced today are driving us toward a new step in the evolution of educational theory and practice. Educators are called to go beyond simply presenting alternatives, to integrating the best of mainstream and alternative approaches and taking them to the next level. Integral Education accomplishes this by bringing together leading researchers and practitioners from higher education who are actively exploring the frontiers of education from an integral perspective. It presents an overview of the emerging landscape of integral education from a variety of theoretical and applied perspectives. Key characteristics of integral education include exploring multiple perspectives, employing different pedagogical techniques (e.g., reflective, dialogical, empirical), combining conceptual rigor with embodied experience, drawing on developmental psychology, and cultivating a reflective and transformative space for students and teachers alike. Integral Education provides the most comprehensive synopsis of this exciting new approach and serves as a valuable resource for any integral effort within education.

“As the first book to explore the overlap between Integral Theory and education, it offers a wide range of perspectives, including scientific, academic, applied, theoretical, socio-historical, and anecdotal/narrative.” — Thomas J. Murray, EdD

“This book fulfills the Integral Theoretical approach by being comprehensive in its view of the field of education. I believe any professor worth his or her salt needs to read it.” — Mark J. Fischler, Plymouth State University

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens is Associate Professor and Founding Chair of the Integral Theory Program at John F. Kennedy University. He is the editor of Integral Theory in Action: Applied, Theoretical, and Constructive Perspectives on the AQAL Model, also published by SUNY Press, and Executive Editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Jonathan Reams is Associate Professor of Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Editor-in-Chief of Integral Review. Olen Gunnlaugson is a Postdoc Associate at Simon Fraser University.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

The Emergence and Characteristics of Integral Education: An Introduction
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Jonathan Reams, and Olen Gunnlaugson

I. Historical Contexts

1. Western-Islamic and Native American Genealogies of Integral Education
   Gary P. Hampson, Southern Cross University

2. Elements of the Underacknowledged History of Integral Education
   Markus Molz, University of Luxembourg and Gary P. Hampson, Southern Cross University

3. The Complete Yoga: The Lineage of Integral Education
   Jim Ryan, California Institute of Integral Studies

II. Distinct Approaches

1. Integral Theory in Service of Enacting Integral Education: Illustrations from an Online Graduate Program
   Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, John F. Kennedy University

2. Integral Transformative Education: A Participatory Proposal
   Jorge Ferrer, Marina Romero, and Ramon Albareda, California Institute of Integral Studies

3. A “Developmental Action Inquiry” Approach To Teaching First-, Second-, and Third-Person Action Research Methods
   Erica Steckler and William R. Torbert, Boston College

4. Teaching Integratively: Five Dimensions of Transformation
   Roben Torosyan, Fairfield University

5. Encountering the (W)hole: Integral Education as Deep Dialogue and Cultural Medicine
   Matthew Bronson, California Institute of Integral Studies, and Ashok Gangadean, Haverford College

III. Case Studies

1. Jazz, Creativity, and Consciousness: A Blueprint for Integral Education
   Ed Sarath, University of Michigan

2. Grounding Integral Theory in the Field of Experience
   Terri O’Fallon, Pacifi c Integral

3. An Open Way of Being: Integral Reconceptualization of Mathematics for Teaching
   Moshe Renert and Brent Davis, University of British Columbia

4. Written in “Three Voices:” A Turn Toward Integral Higher Education
   Irene Karpiak, University of Oklahoma

5. Integral Education, Integral Transformation, and the Teaching of Mind-Body Medicine
   Joel Kreisberg, John F. Kennedy University

6. Matching Educational Intentions with Assessment: Using an Integral Map
   Nancy T. Davis, Florida State University

7. Expanding Our Vision in the Teaching and Design of University Science—Coming to Know Our Students
   Sue Stack, University of Tasmania

IV. Looking Ahead

1. Integral Mind, Brain, and Education
   Katie Heikkinen, Harvard University

2. Embodying Integral Education in Five Dimensions
   Carissa Wieler, John F. Kennedy University

3. Opening Up the Path of Integral Education
   Olen Gunnlaugson, Simon Fraser University

4. Contemporary Integral Education Research: A Transnational and Transparadigmatic Overview
   Markus Molz, University of Luxembourg

5. Spirituality and Integral Thought in Higher Education
   Alexander Astin, UCLA and Jonathan Reams, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

6. Evolving Higher Education Integrally: Delicate Mandalic Theorizing
   Jennifer M. Gidley, Southern Cross University

Author Biographies
Index