Jung and Educational Theory offers a new take on Jungs work, providing original, rich and informative material on his impact on educational research.
- Explores Jungs writing from the standpoint of educational philosophy, assessing what it has to offer to theories of education
- Highlights Jungs emphasis on educations role in bringing up integrated and ethical human beings
- Offers the perspectives of a diversity of academics and practitioners, on topics ranging from the role of the unconscious in learning to the polytheistic classroom
- Both a valuable addition to the academic library and a significant new resource in the professional development of teachers
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Introduction: Jung and Holistic Education |
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1 Jung and the Soul of Education (at the `Crunch') |
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2 On the `Art and Science' of Personal Transformation: Some critical reflections |
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3 The Polytheistic Classroom |
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4 Itinerary of the Knoiver: Mapping the ways of gnosis, Sophia, and imaginative education |
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5 The Unifying Function of Affect: Founding a theory of psychocultural development in the epistemology of John Dewey and Carl Jung |
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6 Deleuze's Philosophy and Jung's Psychology: Learning and the Unconscious |
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7 `The Other Hair of Education: Unconscious education of children |
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8 Complex Education: Depth psychology as a mode of ethical pedagogy |
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9 Jung and Tarot: A theory-practice nexus in education and counselling |
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Inna Semetsky is adjunt professor at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has a PhD in philosophy of education (Columbia University, USA), MA in Family and Child Counseling, and Grad.Dip.Ed in math/science education. She has five entries in the Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development (2006) and has published four books including Deleuze, Education and Becoming (2006) and Re-Symbolization of the Self: Human Development and Tarot Hermeneutic (2011), as well as numerous articles and chapters, including in International Handbooks. She serves on the board of four academic journals. Among her forthcoming books is The Edusemiotics of Images: Essays on the art~science of Tarot (Sense Publishers).