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An international group of scholars, teachers, professors, and practitioners have contributed studies that draw upon theories of integral education from various times and cultures as well as practices that exemplify and encourage fresh integrations. The essays are especially relevant because of the current global evolution of education at all levels, from primary school to the university and into the community. This evolution has been inspiring teachers and professors to move beyond their traditional disciplinary boundaries, to engage in transdisciplinary educational models that embody multiple ways of knowing, and to recognize the student as a whole person.
Integral Education is not limited to a particular theory or practice: it is expansive. It integrates many models of teaching and learning, for example, Integral Drama Based Pedagogy integrates drama and other expressive arts. It also includes multiple ways of knowing; it embodies teaching and learning through action; and it values the intellectual, physical, and spiritual dimensions of being human.
An international group of scholars, teachers, professors, and practitioners have contributed studies that draw upon theories of integral education from various times and cultures as well as practices that exemplify and encourage fresh integrations. The essays are especially relevant because of the current global evolution of education at all levels, from primary school to the university and into the community. This evolution has been inspiring teachers and professors to move beyond their traditional disciplinary boundaries, to engage in transdisciplinary educational models that embody multiple ways of knowing, and to recognize the student as a whole person.
Integral Education is not limited to a particular theory or practice: it is expansive. It integrates many models of teaching and learning, for example, Integral Drama Based Pedagogy integrates drama and other expressive arts. It also includes multiple ways of knowing; it embodies teaching and learning through action; and it values the intellectual, physical, and spiritual dimensions of being human.
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Critical Leaders and the Foundation of Disability Studies in Education is a sub-series to the book series Studies in Inclusive Education. The series and subseries have independent editorial teams that work closely together. For the volumes published in the main book series, please visit its webpage.
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The teaching of famous English play is generally either for the comprehension of texts or a stage performance in our schools. While considering about an integrated curriculum of Drama and English could enable students to have a deeper, broader, more complete, and interesting course in the learning process, we designed and implemented a curriculum of Role Drama approaches of Drama in Education (DIE) into the teaching of an English play “The Cop and the Anthem” for the class of students who study English as a second language in a high school.
From observing participant students and evaluating the 5-session teaching process in the class, we found that the effectiveness of the curriculum on Role Drama approaches of DIE not only lets students to have enjoyable English performing courses but also improves students’ capabilities in English expression and personal literacy.
Depending in this teaching experience, finally, we present our conclusions on the feasibilities of activities for improving teaching.
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Sri Aurobindo lived four hundred years after Wang Yangming in a different civilization and another age. Yet there are parallels between the lives of these two thinkers and significant similarities between their philosophies. Central to the methods of practice advocated by both is the uncovering of a faculty of knowledge which we already possess, but normally allow to be obscured by our ordinary psychological movements. This faculty, the intuitive mind, has to emerge and be applied to all the activities of life. Methods for cultivating it have been developed under different names in both China and India. They can be found in ancient texts such as the Great Learning and the Bhagavadgītā as well as in the writings of Wang Yangming and Sri Aurobindo. Integral education would be incomplete if it does not include the cultivation of the intuitive mind.