About
Kathleen Kesson is an Emeritus Professor, researcher, author, and consultant with expertise in curriculum theory, design and development, personalized learning, spirituality in education, arts in education, democratic schooling, unschooling, and teacher inquiry.
Becoming One With the World: A Guide to Neohumanist Education responds to an urgent need to reconceptualize the fundamentals of education in light of the many social, ecological, and political challenges facing humanity today. It answers the call for a new educational paradigm, one based on a far richer, more insightful understanding of human possibility, one that decenters human “exceptionalism” in favor of a new ecological consciousness, one that promotes harmony and cooperation between humans and non-human others, and one that cultivates wisdom. Neohumanist education strives for a harmonious balance between spiritual development and critical engagement with the world, in the belief that an awakened conscience translates into transcending differences and creating a sense of unity with all beings.
Becoming One With the World is an extraordinary book. While its primary aims are explaining the philosophy of Neohumanism and detailing a Neohumanistic approach to education, it is simultaneously a comprehensive summary and synthesis of scholarly literature in the field of holistic education.
Dr. Aostre Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Education, Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, USA.
Dr. Kesson’s thinking and writing create What a wonderful book! Packed into its pages are decades of experience as a meditator, yogi, parent, educator, and Neohumanist. This latter is the crux of this text, designed to lay out in clear accessible language the fundamentals of this rich and inspiring philosophy and to touch on ways it can find its way into the daily flow of the classroom and school.
Dr. Marcus Bussey, Senior Lecturer in History and Futures, School of Law and Society,
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
This book by Dr. Kathleen Kesson is beautiful, wonderful, and powerful. I am sheerly impressed by the spectrum of Kathleen’s mindset and the depth of her spiritual wisdom that reaches into all dimensions of learning, teaching, being, and the “cosmic mystery” including human and non-human lives. Kathleen is a visionary educator and a leader for a New Era of Neohumanism.
Dr. Jing Lin, Professor, International Education Policy, University of Maryland