Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD

A healthy society needs to be literate beyond language and number to support diversity of thought and expression. The current STEM-dominated academy with dependencies on calculative reason, predictability, measurement, and control disables unity of human faculties and, therefore, is both impaired and impairing.

By privileging instrumental reason over complementary learning modalities, higher education delegitimizes non-discursive and non-rational cognition associated with indigenous wisdom and the arts and humanities. This condition is enhanced when the academy prizes knowledge for its effective utility rather than its essential truth or potential for transformation.

My Healing Education initiative valorizes multiple ways of learning, knowing, perceiving, and being that includes rational mental operations of the hard sciences and subjective modalities of the arts and humanities linked together by the cognitive imagination.