Power of the Whole

Sean Slade is a global education leader with three decades of experience across five countries and four continents. He is a frequent speaker, author, and opinion writer on the purpose of education, its progress, and its social impact. He currently resides in the Washington DC area.

A compelling call and an insightful analysis! In The Power of the Whole, Sean Slade presents a powerful case against focusing on individual things and invites us to focus on the whole in education.

• ForewordPrefacePART 1 The Whole Big PictureChapter 1: It’s All ConnectedInter-connectedness and InteractionsIntra-connectedness and ReactionsChapter 2: The Myopic ViewCan’t See the Forest for the TreesCan’t See the Neighborhood for the Houses.PART 2 The Whole of EducationChapter 3: The Whole ApproachBack-to-Basics or Fostering Synergy?Wholeness, Interconnectedness, and EducationMoving Away from the Myopic and Towards the WholeFocusing on the PurposeEducational HoardersChapter 4: A Whole EducationHidden CurriculumSocially and Emotionally The Absence of a Core ReasonFinland and the End of SubjectsChapter 5: From the Whole Child to the Whole CommunityIt Often Starts with Health but Ends with EducationWhole ChildWhole SchoolWhole Community Chapter 6:Health, Government, and the WorldWhole HealthWhole GovernmentWhole WorldPART 3: Whole-ness and What to doChapter 7: How it happensPBL, Service Learning, and Taking the Broader ViewWhole-Part-WholeCommonality of Objective and MindsetChapter 8: A Collaborative, Collective FocusWeavingNetworks and Working Those NetsChapter 9: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its PartsReferences