The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness

by Christopher M. Bache

Overview

Describes the emergence of powerful fields of consciousness that influence students' learning and personal transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791476468
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	08/28/2008
Series:	SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	696,422
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Christopher M. Bache is Professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University and the author of Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I . The Emergence of Fields of Consciousness

1. Resonance in the Classroom

2. Group Fields, Group Minds

3. The Science of Fields

PART II . Working with Fields of Consciousness

4. Working with Fields

5. Café Conversations

PART III. Teaching in a Living Universe

6. Waking Up in the Classroom

Student Stories

Introduction

7. Where We Begin

8. Healing through Writing

9. Spiritual Experiences

10. Conversion Experiences

11. Touched by Death

12. Personal Discoveries

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Chris Bache has been a leader in the quest to rediscover our hidden connectedness for a long time, and his new book answers a critical need for grounded examples of how collective intelligence functions in practical settings. His beautiful stories and incisive reflections will not only inspire teachers but help us all to recover our collective birthright as human beings." - Peter M. Senge, Director of the Society for Organizational Learning and author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

"This seminal work is an inspiration to all of us who see collaborative dialogue and conversational leadership (including teaching) as a powerful path for accessing the kind of collective wisdom that is so needed in today's challenging times." - Juanita Brown, Cofounder of The World Café and coauthor of The World Café Shaping Our Future through Conversations That Matter

"Bache does for teaching what Galileo did for skywatching, opening our horizons to an entirely new dimension of both theory and practice. His articulation of this expanded perspective is superbly precise, and the implications are profound." - Richard Tarnas, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and author of The Passion of the Western Mind

"What a joy to read this book by a master teacher with a new vision for educators." - Marilyn Schlitz, Director of Research and Education, Institute of Noetic Sciences

"This may be the shortest endorsement on record-just one word repeated twice: True, true." - Ervin Laszlo, author of The Connectivity Hypothesis: Foundations of an Integral Science of Quantum, Cosmos, Life, and Consciousness

"Chris Bache has written an important and pathbreaking book about collective consciousness in the classroom. This thoughtful and delightful read is at the forefront of education for the twenty-first century." - Alfonso Montuori, Chair, Department of Transformative Inquiry, California Institute of Integral Studies

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