Holistic Education
A Bibliography


Most of the works cited in this bibliography are considered to be about "holistic education" as defined by their authors, or by others in the field. Some are writings within education that have holistic elements within their descriptions about learning or child development. If you have only time to read one book and want to know what to start with, we recommend Krishnamurti's Education and the Significance of Life.

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Anderson, L. F. (1931). Pestalozzi. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Ashton-Warner, S. (1964). Teacher. New York: Bantam.

Barnard, H. (Ed.). (1859). Pestalozzi and Pestalozzianism: Life, educational principles, and methods of John Henry Pestalozzi with biographical sketches of several of his assistants and disciples (Second edition). New York: F.C. Brownell.

Bernstein, B. (1996). Pedagogy Symbolic Control and Identity: Theory, Research, Critique. London: Taylor & Francis.

Best, R. (Ed.). (1996). Education,Spirituality and the Whole Child. London: Cassel.

Cajete, G. (1994). Look to the Mountain: An ecology of indigenous education. Durango: Kivaaki Press.

Cohen, A. (1983). The Educational Philosophy Of Martin Buber. London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Dudty, D., & Dudty, H. (Eds.). (1994). Holistic Education: Some Australian Explorations. "Belconnen, ACT": Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Emerson, R. W. (1966). Emerson on Education. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University.

Fletcher, S. S. F., & Welton, J. (Eds.). (1912). Froebel's Chief Writings on Education. London: Edward Arnold.

Forbes, S. (2003). Holistic Education: An Analysis of Its Ideas and Nature. Brandon, VT: Foundation for Educational Renewal.

Froebel, F. (1890). The Education of Man (W. N. Hailman, Trans.) (Vol. 5). New York: D. Appleton and Company.

H. K. Moore (Eds.). Froebel's Letters on the Kindergarten. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.

Glazer, S. (Ed.). (1999). The Heart Of Learning: Spirituality in Education. New York: Penguin /Putnam.

Hayward, F. H. (1904). The Educational Ideal of Pestalozzi and Froebel. London: Ralph Holland & Co.

Jung, C. G. (1954a). Child Development and Education (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). In H. Read & M. Fordham & G. Adler (Eds.), The Development of Personality (2nd ed., Vol. 17). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Kessler, R. (2000). The Soul of Education: Helping students find connection, compassion and character at school. Alexandria, VA.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Krishnamurti, J. (1974). On Education. Pondicherry, India: All India Press.

Krishnamurti, J. (1975a). Beginnings of Learning. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.

Krishnamurti, J. (1975b). Dialogue on Education, Ojai.

Krishnamurti, J. (1981). Letters To The Schools: Volume One. Den Haag, Holland: Mirananda.

Krishnamurti, J. (1985). Letters To The Schools: Volume Two. Den Haag, Holland: Mirananda.

Krishnamurti, J. (1953, 1990). Education and the Significance of Life (Gollancz Paperback). London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.

Lawrence, E. (Ed.). (1952). Friedrich Froebel and English Education. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Maslow, A. (1975). Some Educational Implications of the Humanistic Psychologies. In T. B. Roberts (Ed.), Four Psychologies Applied to Education: Freudian, Behavioral, Humanistic, Transpersonal. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Co.

Miller, J. P. (1993a). The Holistic Curriculum. Toronto: OISE Press.

Miller, J. P. (1993b). The Holistic Teacher. Toronto: OISE Press.

Miller, J. P. (1994). The Contemplative Practitioner: Meditation in Education and the Professions. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey.

Miller, J. P., Bruce Cassie, J. R., & Drake, S. M. (1990). Holistic Learning: A Teachers Guide to Integrated Studies. Toronto: OISE.

Miller, J., & Nakagawa, Y., eds. (2002). Nurturing Our Wholeness: Perspectives on Spirituality in Education. Brandon, VT: Foundation for Educational Renewal.

Miller, R. (1992). What Are Schools For?: Holistic Education In American Culture (Second ed.). Brandon, VT: Holistic Education Press.

Miller, R. (Ed.). (1993). The Renewal of Meaning in Education: Responses to the Cultural and Ecological Crisis of Our Times. Brandon, VT: Holistic Education Press.

Miller, R. (2000). Caring for New Life: Essays on Holistic Education. Volume One of the Foundations of Holistic Education Series. Brandon, VT: Foundation for Educational Renewal.

Moffett, J. (1994). The Universal Schoolhouse: Spiritual Awakening Through Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Montessori, M. (1964). The Montessori Method. New York: Schocken Books.

Montessori, M. (1965). Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook (1 ed.). New York: Schocken Books Inc.

Montessori, M. (1973). The Absorbent Mind. Madras: Kalakshetra Publications.

Nakagawa, Yoshiharu (2000). Education for Awakening: An Eastern Approach to Holistic Education. Volume Two of the Foundations of Holistic Education Series. Brandon, VT: Foundation for Educational Renewal.

Nava, Ramon Gallegos (2001). Holistic Education: Pedagogy of Universal Love. Translated by Madeline Newman Rios and Gregory S. Volume Five of the Foundations of Holistic Education Series. Brandon, VT: Foundation for Educational Renewal.

Noddings, N. (1986). Caring: A feminine approach to ethics and moral education. Berkley: University of California Press.

Noddings, N. (1992). The Challenge to Care in Schools: An Alternative Approach to Education. New York: Columbia University Teachers College Press.

Palmer, P. J. (1983). To Know As We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.

Pestalozzi, J. H. (1827). Letters on Early Education Addressed to J.P. Greaves, Esq. London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper.

Pestalozzi, J. H. (1907). How Gertrude Teaches Her Children: An attempt to help mothers to teach their own children (L. E. H. a. F. C. Turner, Trans.) (4th ed.). London: Swan, Sonnenshein & Co.

Pestalozzi, J. H. (1912). Letters in J. A. Green (Ed.), Pestalozzi's Educational Writings. London: Edward Arnold.

Pestalozzi, J. H. (1931a). Articles and letters in L. F. Anderson (Ed.), Pestalozzi. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Priestman, O. B. (1952). The Influence of Froebel on the Independent Preparatory Schools of Today. In E. Lawrence (Ed.), Friedrich Froebel and English Education. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Purpel, D. E. (1989). The Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education: A Curriculum for Justice and Compassion In Education. New York: Bergin & Garvey.

Rogers, C. (1967). The Facilitation of Significant Learning. In L. Siegel (Ed.), Some Contemporary Viewpoints of Instruction. San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Co.

Rogers, C. (1969). Freedom to Learn. Columbus. Ohio: Merrill.

Rogers, C., & Freiberg, H. J. (1994). Freedom to Learn (Third ed.). New York: Merrill.

Rousseau, J. J. (1979). Emile: or On Education (A. Bloom, Trans.). London: Penguin Books.

Whitehead, A. N. (1967). The Aims of Education. New York: The Free Press (originally Macmillan 1929).


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-J. Krishnamurti


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