Meaning-Centered Education

Olga Kovbasyuk is Co-Founder of the Institute for Meaning Centered Education, and Professor of Intercultural Communication at Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law (KSAEL), Russia.Patrick Blessinger is Founder and Executive Director of the Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL), as well as a lecturer and researcher in education.

• Foreword Ronald BarnettIntroduction. Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick Blessinger Section One: Theory and Principles of Meaning-Centered EducationChapter 1. The Nature and Origins of Meaning-Centered Education, Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick BlessingerChapter 2. Emerging Contexts and Meanings of Human Education, Dmitry LeontievChapter 3. Dialogic Education in the Age of the Internet, Rupert WegerifChapter 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 ExperienceChapter 5. Fostering Intercultural Dialogue via Communication Technologies, Alyssa J. O'Brien and Olga KovbasyukChapter 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 ShenkmanChapter 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 LearningChapter 9. Meaning's Secret Identity, Russell A. HuntChapter 10. How to Enhance Meaning-Centered Writing and Reading, Anne Ellen GellerChapter 11. Supporting Students’ Search for a Meaningful Life through Inquiry-guided Learning, Virginia S. LeeChapter 12. Research as Transformative Learning for Meaning-Centered Professional Development, Peter Charles TaylorChapter 13. The Future of Meaning-Centered Education, Olga Kovbasyuk, Patrick BlessingerConclusion. Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick Blessinger