The Non-Linear Nature of Emergent Teaching: A Multi-threaded Tale

Sam Crowell is an associate professor of education at California State University—San Bernardino and the founder and co-director of the MA in Holistic and Integrative Education and the Center for Holistic and Integrative Learning. As a holistic educator, he is an advocate of the artistry of teaching and an in-spirited education. He started teaching in a small school in Appalachia, seeing teaching as a kind of engaged service to the world. His experiences there seeded his interest in educational alternatives, and an education that responds to real human needs and that transforms lives in the most profound ways. Together with Renata Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine he is the author of the books The Re-Enchantment of Learning: A Manual for Teacher Renewal and Classroom Transformation (1997) and MindShifts: A Brain-Compatible Process for Professional Development and the Renewal of Education (1999)

David Reid-Marr is an adjunct professor in a Master's program at California State University—San Bernardino. He graduated from the Royal College of Art, London with a M.F.A. in painting and art history. He organized and participated in many site-specific installations in England and Wales before coming to the U.S. to study Zen Buddhism. This led to an interest in the relationship between religion and our perceptions, and to a series of large format drawings, found-object sculpture and performance work, which have been exhibited throughout the Western U.S. He and has an abiding interest in the theory and practice of alternative education.