A women's-health course developed by nursing faculty in cooperation with women's studies takes a holistic, contextual view of women's health. Student outcomes include heightened self-awareness, commitment to personal wellness and community service, and increased knowledge of the societal context of health issues. (SK)

Suggests that the quality of students' experience of higher education in the United Kingdom can be improved by combining educational development with quality assurance to create a holistic approach. Explains the concept, "quality development," and describes four examples of how this approach can work. (EV)

Proposes that traditional theories of career development are inadequate due to the complexity of today's work world. As changes occur in society and the world-of-work, employment counselors need new ways of dealing with their clients. Introduces employment counselors to the "leisure theory of career development" as an alternative to…

Students undertook a group assignment and assessed each other's contributions using two approaches: holistic and category-based. Holistic assessment yielded more groups who awarded members equal marks and a greater proportion of students with a large gain or loss of marks compared to other group members. Findings indicated that the holistic…

Sustainable development can remain a regulative ideal for environmental educators with the acknowledgement that it has no absolute legitimation and that human reflexivity remains capable of reworking the cultural traditions that have shaped it. Claims that the quest for holism remains one voice in a continuing dialogue about the environment and…

A group of Jewish women used collaborative inquiry techniques of action-reflection, holistic ways of knowing, emotional probing, and validity procedures to explore their experience of internalized oppression. They used healing strategies such as storytelling, songs, art, movement, and theatre in the transformative process. (SK)

Case examples of the experiences of a counselor-in-training illustrate the benefits of a holistic career counseling model that incorporates personal/emotional issues. The model is especially appropriate for older students or adults experiencing career transitions. (SK)

Examines the current understanding of competence and move toward a holistic perspective. Uses examples from research to develop an interpretive-relational perspective in which the individual's conception of competence cannot be separated from the context of their work, situation, and experience. (SK)

This literature review addresses the following questions: "What is spirituality?"; How is it defined in a nursing context?"; and "What should be taught in nursing and how?" It emphasizes spirituality as a broad concept, not equated with any religion. (SK)

This paper is a wake-up call, reclaiming the place of the artistic and the aesthetic in theatre and drama education as its core experience. Drama and theatre educators need to remind themselves that although drama is now being viewed as a multileveled discourse, the true appeal and beauty of drama and theatre in education lies in its power to…

The public schools in the US should go beyond teaching fundamental skills in a democratic society. The teachers should be allowed to interact with students as whole persons and new policies should be developed that treats the schools as a whole community because the future of the children and democracy depends on them.

A holistic approach to pragmatic ability and disability is outlined which takes account both of the behaviour of individuals involved in the communicative process, and also of the underlying factors which contribute to such behaviour. Rather than being seen as resulting directly from a dysfunction in some kind of discrete pragmatic "module" or…

The 5-Factor Wel, the latest version of the Wellness Evaluation of Lifestyle (WEL), was examined using a completely new 3.993-person database. Through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with 2 discrete subsets of these data, a new 4-factor solution was identified that provided the best fit for the data and accounted for 30% of the…

Whether academic advisors teach or advise students--and some would say advisors are teaching--they have a responsibility to enhance students' collegiate learning experiences by understanding who they are and what needs they have. The adult learner is not an exception to this assumption. While much variation exists in defining and categorizing the…

Parker Palmer, in "The Courage to Teach" (1997), proposed an alternative approach to traditional teaching evaluations, one deeply rooted in a holistic view of education which focuses on the potential for creating self-knowledge and relationships between colleagues. This article describes a project in which we studied these claims and tested the…