{"id":1,"count":56,"description":"Schools impose pre-existing learning structures and classifications of exclusion upon atypical learners who naturally learn and come to knowledge using intuitive, non-discursive modalities. Their personal knowledge and tacit learning are neither recognized nor valued within prescribed, compartmentalized curricula. Stigmatized by their cognitive typical peers, as well as by faculty and staff who tightly manage academic choke-hold points, nonconventional learners undergo cognitive splits and suffer scarring of their authentic being that may last a lifetime and thereby contributes to the global mental health crisis. Our schools must cease making cognitive fragmentation acceptable and impairment of mental and psycho-emotional fitness permissible. We must discontinue support of a narrow word and number-based educational model that, by itself, leads to stunted intellectual and emotional growth instead of individuated wholeness. The prevention of mental health wounding caused by education is our dire ethical responsibility every bit as much as the restoration of well-being of those learners harmed by schools. We need a salutogenic educational approach to prevention of student impairment that enhances epistemological and cognitive diversity and is well suited to effective decision making, problem solving, and assessing contradictory claims to truth in a democratic society. \u201cHealing Education,\u201d a holistic and integral approach that features concepts of \u201cNoetic Literacy\u201d and \u201cCognitive Imagination\u201d developed through the arts, humanities, folklore, and indigenous wisdom traditions, is discussed as a means to nurture mind-body integrity of citizens needed to achieve socio-political concord and democratic participation. Noetic principles and values explored here do not establish strict rules, a detailed roadmap, or a how-to, one-size-fits-all guide to establishing a Healing Education curriculum or pedagogy, so much as provide a basis for further development.","link":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/?cat=1","name":"Healing Education for Democracy","slug":"education","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&categories=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}