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Teacher Development Program
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This
program is currently being developed in Portland, Oregon,
in coordination with the planning of our elementary school.
In the meantime, you may read An
Overview for Teachers, to learn more about the entire
field of Holistic Education.
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Courses Offered
The
courses offered cover the topics of both Action Research and
Holistic Education. Participants in the program are entitled
to choose any four courses. It is assumed that participants
will want to choose courses that most closely address their
research process concerns or the nature of their research
interests. Any number of additional courses may be taken for
an extra fee. As most of the participants will be practicing
teachers, the courses will be held as week-end seminars. Participants
will need to be present for the full two days (eight hours
each) of the seminars if they wish to receive credit.
Courses
having to do with Action Research:
- Research Question Formation,
and 'Action' Planning - To help refine and develop good research
questions, and plan an initial cycle of 'action'.
- Data Collection - To explore
the different kinds of data, and suggest strategies for collecting
such data with benefits and difficulties attendant to each.
- Data Analysis and Structured
Reflection - To investigate different approaches for analyzing
data, and engage in structured reflection--individually as
well as collaboratively.
- Writing Up Research and Literature
Review - To assist with the process of writing up a research
project for academic acceptance or general presentation, and
to help participants locate and interpret research on their
topic written by others.
Courses
having to do with Holistic Education:
- The Goal of Holistic Education
- To examine the principal elements in various forms of "Ultimacy,"
and its implications for education.
- Experiential Learning - To
distinguish experiential learning from conceptual learning,
and to understand the implication and consequences of each.
- Competence in Holistic Education
- To explore notions of competence as promoted in past and
present forms of Holistic Education.
- Working with Aspects of Students
that Facilitate the Needed Learning - To understand Holistic
Education's perspective on the nature of humans as expressed
in the young.
- The Learning Process and Pedagogic
Relationships in Holistic Education - To understand how these
are distinct from their counterparts in mainstream education.
- History of Holistic Education
- To explore the intellectual precedents of Holistic Education
and examine the elements of some popular forms.
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The highest function
of education
is to bring about an integrated individual who is capable
of dealing with life
as a whole.
-J. Krishnamurti
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