Educating for Humanity

""Neil Tucker has written a very comprehensive and useful study of the literature and thinking around whole-child education. He writes with admirable clarity and logic. The summarising dot points are clear and useful to readers in signposting the argument. The book is a great resource for all higher education students and teachers."" Sue Kossew, FAHA, Author, Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Australia ""I congratulate the author on such detail, and the broad and excellent research and theory. The concept and argument of educating for humanity is very inspiring. The book is so well written."" Dr Kathy Walker (OAM), Founder of Walker Learning, former academic, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ""One of the enduring lessons from our research into values education was the need for holism in teaching and learning contexts if the optimal effects of education are to be realised. Understanding cognition as inseparable from the whole student, their emotional, social, moral, spiritual and aesthetic selves, is the indispensable key. Tucker demonstrates the nexus."" Terence Lovat, Author, International Research Fellow, Emeritus Professor at University of Newcastle, Australia ""Neil Tucker has written a very important book based on extensive research and rich experience in the leadership and governance of schools. He has given us a clarion call to the importance of holistic education, a concept which he compares to the web of life and to the interconnectedness of a jigsaw. This is a fine book which should become a standard text in teacher education. It deserves to be read closely and carefully by current educators."" Dr John Collier, Author, Headmaster of Shore School; Dean of Education, Morling College, Australia ""It's a colossal work, infused with little anecdotes from the coal face. I thoroughly enjoyed its passionate discourse and arguments, the bringing together of science, spirituality, consciousness, philosophy and the wisdom of the indigenous. It was both moving and troubling. The book speaks to our collective selves, and the well-being of the planet."" David Bryson, Author, Consultant, Mediator, Principal at David Bryson and Associates