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Applications of Transformational Change

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We invite you to participate as a researcher for finding and adding resources on transformational change.   This is a dynamic tool for you to add information you find to your HS 301 individual group's wiki as you do research for class projects (click on the "Sidebar" located on the right in the "View" mode--select the appropriate Class Wiki).  We encourage you to share not only titles (for example, the citation of a journal article, a book, a blog, or title of a digital media stream), but also the places you found the resources and the search strategies you found useful, as we have in the links below. Students will post to the topic areas on the sidebar located on the right.

 

Required Assignment Materials:

 

Measuring the Immeasurable: The Scientific Case for Spirituality. (2008). Boulder, CO: Sounds True Publishers.  Read the following:

Lipton, B. H. Revealing the Wizard Behind the Curtain: The "New" Biology and Epigenetics, pp. 185-199.

Schlitz, M. M., Vieten, C., & Amorok, T. Living Deeply: The Art of Science and Transformation in Everyday Life, pp. 439-457.

 

Supplementary Resource Materials:

 

Articles:

 

Peer Reviewed:

 Davis, J. M., Cooke, S. M.  (2007).  Educating for a healthy, sustainable world: an argument for integrating Health Promoting Schools and Sustainable SchoolsHealth Promotion International, 22 (4), pp. 346-353.  8p, 1 chart; DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dam030; (AN 27993537)

Abstract: Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth and the British government's Stern Review of the economics of climate change have provided heightened awareness of how humans are over-stretching the Earth's life support systems. The health of human populations and the health of global ecosystems are inextricably linked and the need for fundamental changes in how we live is becoming impossible to ignore. While not the complete answer, education must be a part of imagining and transforming our patterns of living. Learning embedded in educational systems derived from worldviews that replicate unhealthy and unsustainable lifestyles and environments is not a part of the solution but a significant part of the problem. In Australia, two internationally implemented whole-school reform movements, health promoting schools (HPS) and sustainable schools (SS)--seek to provide ways of operationalizing transformative educational processes. Both movements aim to build resilience and optimism, use action-oriented teaching and learning approaches, and have a focus on the future. While these two approaches to educational and social change have much in common, currently there is virtually no conversation between their proponents and advocates. This paper makes a case for HPS and SS to work together--both theoretically and practically--with the ultimate goal being the emergence of schools that are both green and healthy. Such integration would make an important educational contribution to the creation of a healthy, sustainable world.

Search strategy: global and health and transformative and change, limited to peer reviewed, in Academic Search Premier.

Read the abstract. To read the Full Text, click on "Check for Full Text" on the abstract web page. Click on "Article".

 

Media:

 

Blog: Live Journal

LiveJournal is an online journaling community, where people from around the world share stories, discuss topics and keep in touch with friends. It's a free service that you can use for meeting people and creating bonds through writing and sharing.

http://www.livejournal.com/tour/

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