Module 12: CONTENT: Science, the Arts, and the Humanities – with spedial reference to Philosophy and Poetry in Holistic Education
Module description:
In relation to a working definition of the process of holistic development this module looks at the nature of, and use of, the idea of ‘how the science, th arts, and the humanities, especially philosophy and poetry come together in holistic education and in other forms of practice’ by the teacher, or other practitioner, so as to encourage learning, professional development and/or personal growth.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience. Alfred North Whitehead.
Poetry Ferlinghetti pure lyricism is not dead except in America
Time for a Populist Laureate Thus Spake Ferlinghetti by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 
“Pure lyricism is not dead. Except in America. …
We read poetry for its beauty, for its muted music, for its promise of liberation, its promise of transcendence, for its “lyric escape.” There is a need for lyricism in daily life, but we get very little of it in poetry today. The age does not demand it. Other drugs, like Ecstasy, are used for turn-ons. But perhaps some new lyricism will arise to fill what some have called the spiritual emptiness of our world. Nature abhors a vacuum. We still need the lyric escape. It is still the bird singing that makes us happy. …
“Who will speak for the simple and dumb?” asked Eugene Ruggles in an early poem. Perhaps some time soon a great young voice of the people will emerge. And perhaps some new U.S. laureate will seize the day “to burst the petty bonds of art” (as Whitman put it) and become an activist poetic voice in the nation’s capital, a true conscience of the people, an uncompromised and uncompromising critic of life in these States–to rock the ship of state when it really needs rocking. Which is now. “ SEE http://www.ncf.ca/~ek867/2001_02_01_archives.html
(As an older person I greatly appreciate, “It is still the bird singing that makes us happy. … “ RP)
Content: SEE http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/default.htm?cookie%5Ftest=1
SEE http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/overview.html
SEE http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/
Introductory reading/s to get started:
http://mythosandlogos.com/mythandmetaphor.html
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/mythos.htm
A sense of the field can be obtained from Roger Stack’s ‘Map’ of Holistic Education see also his blog
