Hearts and Minds Without Fear

A volume in The Center for PAInT Series on Arts-integrated EducationSeries Editors Terry A. Osborn and Brianne L. Reck, University of South Florida Sarasota-ManateeHearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparationis the first book of its kind that focuses on the critical urgency of integratingcreativity, mindfulness, and compassion in which social and ecological justiceare forefronted in teacher preparation. This is especially significant at a time ofcultural turmoil, educational reform, and inequities in public education. Thebook serves as a vehicle to unmask fear within current educational ethicaldeficiencies and revitalize hope for community members, teacher educators, pre-service, in-service teachers, andfamilies in school communities. The recipients of these strategies are explicitly presented in order to buildunderstanding of a compassionate paradigm shift in schools that envisions possibility and social imagination onbehalf of our children in schools and our communities. The authors unabashedly place the arts and aesthetics atthe core of the educational paradigm solution. The book lives its own message. Within each seed chapter, theauthors practice authentically what they preach, offering a refreshing perspective to bring our schools back to lifeand instill hope in children's and educators' hearts and minds.