Holistic math focuses on problem solving with numbers and concepts. Whole math activities for adults include shopping for groceries, eating in restaurants, buying gas, taking medicine, measuring a room, estimating servings, and compiling a family cookbook. (SK)

Presents two approaches (linear and holistic) for integrating drama into the classroom curriculum. Suggests that both formats offer teachers a practical technique to implement an active approach that engages students as they seek to master content. (RS)

The most successful companies must be flexible and rapidly adaptable. This requires creative management and creative teamwork. Like a kaleidoscope, creative thinking is the ability to rearrange pieces to form a new reality, to see connections, and to think on a global scale. (SK)

Self-care for the older adult must integrate physical, emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, and occupational aspects of life. Sharing stories has a profound healing effect. (JOW)

Evaluates the relative merits of approaches to measuring corporate and competitive performance: financial, stakeholder, admiration, reputation, and corporate logic models. Promotes a holistic framework for selecting appropriate measures that considers strategic success in terms of values, environment, and resources. (SK)

Suggests that schools have a pedagogical responsibility beyond instruction, but that this responsibility should not be understood as the teaching of norms and values. The paper presents a tranformative conception of education, arguing that the pedagogical responsibility, conceived as concern for the whole student, is the proper and…

Meditation nowadays plays a part in mind/body medicine and in some branches of educational psychology. In ancient and medieval times, these functions formed a part of the humanities curriculum as it was taught in philosophical schools, monastic communities, and universities. This article claims that it is by returning to a holistic view of the…

A randomized clinical trial compared the effects of traditional behavioral couple therapy (TBCT) and integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT) on 134 seriously and chronically distressed married couples, stratified into moderately and severely distressed groups. Couples in IBCT made steady improvements in satisfaction throughout the course of…

During the twentieth century, study of the neurologic development of the fetus and infant has resulted in multiple neurodevelopmental assessments. They have been used both for determination of the integrity of the neonate as well as for assessment of the child's outcome from prenatal and neonatal medical interventions. These models of assessment…

The Central Piedmont Community College Libraries moved from a separately maintained periodicals holdings list to a fully-integrated serials module. Establishing the serials module from scratch required the library to make a series of interrelated decisions beyond the realm of serials management and control. The implications of the serials module…

When asked to speak on the first day of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) the author, who is passionate about developing holistic education, began to realize that he had gotten lazy about his own personal growth. As an educator, he was quite used to creating environments that transform students, and encouraging them to explore different parts of…

Compelling evidence suggests that collaborative practices may enable higher education institutions to respond more effectively to changes in the external environment and implement more readily innovations in teaching and learning. However, historical practices, cultural values, and structural characteristics of higher education institutions are…

Dr. Pete Anderson, a clinician and professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, entered the life of Anna and her family two years ago. Anna was referred to him because of his clinical research and expertise in pediatric oncology and multimodality therapies. Anna had been diagnosed with metastatic Ewing's Sarcoma, a form of bone…

This report is part of a larger, 2-year ethnography of bi- and multilingual speakers in Japan. On the basis of audio and videotape recordings of discussions among international students in a Japanese university, this study examines participants' deployment of different conversational resources to understand and talk about marginalizing…

Background/Context: Among the children of immigrants, one of the populations placed at greatest risk of not finishing high school are the children of migrant farmworkers. Although it is difficult to track graduation rates for migrant students because of their mobility, the U.S. Department of Education estimates that only half of all migrant…