Re-enchanting the Academy

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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

1. Angela Voss
   Delectare, Docere, Movere: Soul-learning, Reflexivity and the Third Classroom

2. Robert Bowie
   Stepping into Sacred Texts: How the Jesuits Taught me to Read the Bible

3. Lisa McLoughlin
   Enchanted Engineering: Reintegrating the Roots

4. Julia Moore
   On the Margins of the Academy: Seances, Sitter Groups and Academics

PART THREE
Re-enchanting the Mind

1. Anita Klujber
   The Salutogenic Imagination

2. Judith Way
   Enrichment and Enchantment: The Poetic Heritage of the Western Esoteric Tradition

3. Becca Tarnas
   The Fantastic Imagination

4. Paul Stevens
   Engaging the Non-linguistic Mind

PART FOUR
Re-enchanting Nature & Body

1. Chara & Joan Armon
   Toward Re-Enchantment: Cultivating Nature Connection and Reverence through Experiential Learning

2. Laura Formenti & Silvia Luraschi
   How do you Breathe? Duoethnography as a Means to Re-embody Research in the Academy

3. Laura Shannon
   Women with Wings: Right-brain Consciousness and the Learning Process

4. Sonia Overall
   The Walking Dead; or Why Psychogeography Matters