Educating for Wisdom and Compassion: Creating Conditions for Timeless Learning

by John P. Miller

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Wisdom as an outcome of education is often overlooked and drowned out by the demands of concept attainment, skills mastery, and high-stakes assessments. But wisdom in teaching and learning is the central topic of this small book.

Blending philosophy, research, and three decades of practice, author Jack Miller offers a readable and accessible discussion of timeless principles of learning, including attention, contemplation, connection, participation, transformation, mystery, responsibility, wholeness, and joy.

The author shows us how the themes of timeless learning have been discussed in the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott; how they are put into practice in Montessori, Waldorf, and Krishnamurti schools; and how teachers in today's schools can apply the principles, models, and methods of timeless learning to inform instruction in their own classrooms and teaching practice.

  • ISBN10 1483363880
  • ISBN13 9781483363882
  • Publish Date 20 July 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
  • Imprint Corwin Press Inc
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 184
  • Language English