Programme 368, John P. Miller on Holistic Education, pt 2 (29-5-19)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

Theme tune by David Vesey

On this week's programme I bring you the second and final part of my interview with Professor John P. Miller from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. John P. Miller is the author of The Holistic Curriculum, the third edition of which was recently published. Among the matters we discussed on the programme this week were:

• The importance of examining our beliefs
• The soul as the unconditioned self
• The connection between holistic education and mental health
• The relationship between holistic education and affective education, humanistic education, confluent education and transpersonal education.
• The Holistic Ed Review started by Ron Miller
• The lack of university programmes in holistic education up to doctoral level
• What school is for
• The Sudbury Valley School

People mentioned by John P. Miller

• Suzuki Roshi (Zen mind beginner’s mind)
• Richard Alpert – Ram Dass
• Joseph Goldstein (meditation)
• Norman Feldman (meditation)

Books/authors mentioned on the programme:

• Education and Ecstasy by George Leonard.
• Carl Rogers Freedom to Learn
• The Tao Te Ching
• Emerson’s essays
• Thoreau’s Walden & On Civil Disobedience and his journals
• Maslow Toward a Psychology of Being
• Parker Palmer The Courage to Teach
• Gregory Cajete. His book is Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education (1994).
• Embers by Richard Wagamese
  
• Ron Miller What are schools for?
• Handbook on Holistic Education edited by John P. Miller et al.
• Love and Compassion: Exploring their role in Education by John P. Miller
• The Magic of Conflict by Thomas Crumm