Meaning-Centered Education explores the counter-tide for an alternative vision of education, where students and instructors engage in open meaning-making process and self-correcting, self-organizing educational practices that cannot be and should not be stifled by any preset curricular endpoints and standards.

Foreword Ronald BarnettIntroduction. Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick Blessinger Section One: Theory and Principles of Meaning-Centered EducationChapter 1. The Nature and Origins of Meaning-Centered Education, Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick BlessingerChapter 2. Emerging Contexts and Meanings of Human Education, Dmitry LeontievChapter 3. Dialogic Education in the Age of the Internet, Rupert WegerifChapter 4. Meaning-Centered Experiential Learning: Learning as an Outcome of Reconstructed Experience, Denise Potosky, Jim Spaulding, and John Juzbasich Section Two: Worldwide Successful Practices: Voices of ExperienceChapter 5. Fostering Intercultural Dialogue via Communication Technologies, Alyssa J. O'Brien and Olga KovbasyukChapter 6. Making the Shift towards a Meaning-based Paradigm in European Higher Education: A Spanish Case Study, María Luisa Pérez Cañado Chapter 7. Meaning-Centered Integrative Instruction in Learning Communities, Harriet ShenkmanChapter 8. True Collaboration: Building Meaning in Learning through Sharing Power with Students, Anton O. Tolman and Christopher S. Lee Section Three: Enhancing Meaning-Centered Teaching and LearningChapter 9. Meaning's Secret Identity, Russell A. HuntChapter 10. How to Enhance Meaning-Centered Writing and Reading, Anne Ellen GellerChapter 11. Supporting Students’ Search for a Meaningful Life through Inquiry-guided Learning, Virginia S. LeeChapter 12. Research as Transformative Learning for Meaning-Centered Professional Development, Peter Charles TaylorChapter 13. The Future of Meaning-Centered Education, Olga Kovbasyuk, Patrick BlessingerConclusion. Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick Blessinger