ISSN 1327-9556
2 papers in the library · 19 citations · publishing 2010
TEXT October 30, 2010 Ross Gibson 19 citations
This essay examines the dual consciousness that needs to be activated when the creative arts are used as the basis for scholarly research. In an academic tradition that has always prioritised analysis and critical distance, how and why should we generate, value and communicate the intimately involved and embodied knowledge—the tacit knowledge won from active experience—that often develops in...
TEXT October 30, 2010 Sandra R. Arnold
The Collins Dictionary defines ‘spirit’ as ‘the force or principle of life that animates the body of living things’. ‘Spiritus’ is the Latin word for spirit and also means breath. A bereaved parent in Finkbeiner’s study (1998: 238) says, ‘If children are part of parents they are not arms or legs, but bones andbreath.’ Rudolph Steiner (1973) believed that during the first seven years of life, a...