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Peak Oil, Peak Water, Peak Education
Author(s) -
Coburn Thomas B.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.20050
Subject(s) - contemplation , transformative learning , resource (disambiguation) , sociology , aesthetics , pedagogy , environmental ethics , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , computer network
This chapter argues that today's dominant forms of education are insufficient for today's world because they ignore the vast and conventionally untapped resource that lies in the disciplined inwardness that is contemplative life. It then surveys a range of transformative examples that are emerging in the educational movement known as “contemplative education.”