Table of Contents
Foreword
Ronald Barnett Introduction. Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick Blessinger
Section One: Theory and Principles of Meaning-Centered Education
Chapter 1. The Nature and Origins of Meaning-Centered Education, Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick Blessinger
Chapter 2. Emerging Contexts and Meanings of Human Education, Dmitry Leontiev
Chapter 3. Dialogic Education in the Age of the Internet, Rupert Wegerif
Chapter 4. Meaning-Centered Experiential Learning: Learning as an Outcome of Reconstructed Experience, Denise Potosky, Jim Spaulding, and John Juzbasich
Section Two: Worldwide Successful Practices: Voices of Experience
Chapter 5. Fostering Intercultural Dialogue via Communication Technologies, Alyssa J. O'Brien and Olga Kovbasyuk
Chapter 6. Making the Shift towards a Meaning-based Paradigm in European Higher Education: A Spanish Case Study, María Luisa Pérez Cañado
Chapter 7. Meaning-Centered Integrative Instruction in Learning Communities, Harriet Shenkman
Chapter 8. True Collaboration: Building Meaning in Learning through Sharing Power with Students, Anton O. Tolman and Christopher S. Lee
Section Three: Enhancing Meaning-Centered Teaching and Learning
Chapter 9. Meaning's Secret Identity, Russell A. Hunt
Chapter 10. How to Enhance Meaning-Centered Writing and Reading, Anne Ellen Geller
Chapter 11. Supporting Students’ Search for a Meaningful Life through Inquiry-guided Learning, Virginia S. Lee
Chapter 12. Research as Transformative Learning for Meaning-Centered Professional Development, Peter Charles Taylor
Chapter 13. The Future of Meaning-Centered Education, Olga Kovbasyuk, Patrick Blessinger
Conclusion. Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick Blessinger
