Holistic Learning: Breaking New Ground

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Call for Proposals
Holistic Learning: Breaking New Ground
OISE/UT
Toronto, Canada

October 28 – 30, 2005

Download the Call Here.

The fifth international conference on “Holistic Learning: Breaking New Ground” explores learning as a process that engages body, mind, emotions and spirit. The theme of the conference is Journey of the Spirit. The keynote speakers include Tobin Hart, author of The Secret Spiritual World of Children, and Jane Tompkins, author of A Life in School. We invite proposals that address the theme of the conference through experiential and/or interactive presentations. Sessions will be 75 minutes in length.

It is an expectation that presenters will register and attend the entire conference. Deadline for receiving the proposals is January 5, 2005.



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“Opening the contemplative mind in schools is not a religious issue but a practical epistemic question... Inviting contemplative study simply includes the natural human capacity for knowing through silence, pondering deeply, beholding, witnessing the contents of consciousness and so forth.

These approaches cultivate an inner technology of knowing and thereby a technology of learning and pedagogy without any imposition of religious doctrine whatsoever. If we knew a particular and readily available activity would increase concentration, learning, well-being and social emotional growth, and catalyze transformative learning, we would be cheating our students to exclude it.

Long dormant in education, the natural capacity for contemplation balances and enriches the analytic. It has the potential to enhance performance, character and the depth of the student's experience."

Tobin Hart, Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom, Journal of Transformative Education Vol. 2 No. 1, January 2004

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