Re-enchanting the Academy

IN THIS BOOK, sixteen authors encourage the modern academy to remember that portals to enchantment can be found in its hallowed halls, and indeed must be found, if education is to nourish and inspire both heart and mind, if it is to lead future generations of students out of the cave of policy-led bureaucratisation and financially-led consumerism into the creative freedom of their own souls. Our authors offer resistance to the domination of education 'by belief in the facts revealed solely by mandated standards and standardized testing' through an appeal to the imagination as primary and foundational, the source of connection to self, others, and world.



Enchantment catches us when we least expect it, not only through our thoughts, but through feelings, sensations, intuitions and instincts-and as Peter Abbs reminded us nearly forty years ago, if we want to promote 'wholeness of being' as an educational ideal then our schools and academies must embrace the full spectrum of human ways of knowing, in order to bring new, integrated perspectives to our conflicted world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS



Introduction

About the Contributors
PART ONE

Re-enchanting the Institution
1. Patrick Curry

The Enchantment of Learning and the Fate of our Times
2. Simon Wilson

Clutching the Wheel of St. Catherine; or a Visit to an Enchanted College
3. Linden West

Re-Enchanting the Academy: Popular Education and the Search for Soul in the Modern Academy
4. Eduard Heyning

Not to Explain the World but to Sing it: Panpsychism and the Academy
PART TWO

Re-enchanting the Curriculum
5. Angela Voss

Delectare, Docere, Movere: Soul-learning, Reflexivity and the Third Classroom
6. Robert Bowie

Stepping into Sacred Texts: How the Jesuits Taught me to Read the Bible
7. Lisa McLoughlin

Enchanted Engineering: Reintegrating the Roots
8. Julia Moore

On the Margins of the Academy: Séances, Sitter Groups and Academics
PART THREE

Re-enchanting the Mind
9. Anita Klujber

The Salutogenic Imagination
10. Judith Way

Enrichment and Enchantment: The Poetic Heritage of the Western Esoteric Tradition
11. Becca Tarnas

The Fantastic Imagination
12. Paul Stevens

Engaging the Non-linguistic Mind
PART FOUR

Re-enchanting Nature & Body
13. Chara & Joan Armon

Toward Re-Enchantment: Cultivating Nature Connection and Reverence through Experiential Learning
14. Laura Formenti & Silvia Luraschi

How do you Breathe? Duoethnography as a Means to Re-embody Research in the Academy
15. Laura Shannon

Women with Wings: Right-brain Consciousness and the Learning Process
16. Sonia Overall

The Walking Dead; or Why Psychogeography Matters