CHAPTER 5: Transformative Approaches to Teacher Education: Becoming Holistic Educators in “Unholistic” Settings

This chapter will explore the experience of students that were enrolled in the MA program in Holistic and Integrative Education at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), a program that has worked with eleven cohorts over a period of more than 15 years, recognized by its students and the professional community as an exemplar program in transformative education (e.g., Duerr, Zajonc, & Dana, 2003). As part of our program students take six program courses over a two-year period as a cohort, typically consisting of a diverse group of 15 to 25 students of varying professional contexts, ages and experience. To introduce this chapter, I will quote one student’s account of her professional setting,