Emergent Teaching: A Path of Creativity, Significance, and Transformation - Softcover

Crowell, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475802552 ISBN 13: 9781475802559

Publisher: R&L Education, 2013

Synopsis

Emergent Teaching inspires teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within an educational environment that is highly constrained. It demonstrates, through descriptive stories, creative strategies and provides an intellectual foundation for emergent teaching. The authors show how teachers can relate subject matter to students’ lives and experience. They illustrate rituals and processes that help establish a caring learning community. Finally, the book applies the theories of complexity and chaos while reaffirming the natural wisdom that teachers possess within themselves. The authors have chosen a narrative format that “models” rather than “tells,” and encourages readers to connect to their own stories and experiences.
The book is consistent with the theoretical understandings and research in the complexity sciences but takes a narrative approach, giving examples and illustrations of ideas through stories, myths, and parables that act as metaphors and illustrations. Key topics and practices embedded in these stories include:

teaching the whole person strategies for creative teaching new understandings of processmeaning-centered learningbuilding community in the classroomstrengthening the student/teacher relationship project-based learning using art and nature in teaching embodied learningincorporating story and narrative in teachingrites of passageembracing the unpredictable, uncharted spaces in teaching

About this title

About the Author

Sam Crowell is professor of education at California State University, San Bernardino and founder and co-director of the MA in Holistic and Integrative Education. The program has been recognized nationally as a model of transformative learning in a study funded by the Fetzer Foundation and published in the Journal for Transformative Education. The program has produced five educators who have been recognized as teacher-of-the-year, which just ten cohorts having graduated.

David Reid-Marr is an adjunct professor in the MA in Holistic and Integrative Education at California State University, San Bernardino and teaches full time at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, a highly regarded high school for the arts.

Edition details

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475802552
• ISBN 13: 9781475802559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164