Reclaiming the Fire (eBook)

Clifford Mayes, Ph.D., Psy.D., received a doctorate in the History of U.S. Education from the University of Utah and a doctorate in Psychology from the Southern California University for Professional Studies. Until his retirement, he was a professor of education at Brigham Young University and is now an adjunct professor of psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. Mayes has authored 10 books and 40 scholarly articles in psychology, educational psychology, curriculum theory, and multiculturalism. Mark R. Grandstaff, Ph.D., has a dual degree in American History and Institutional Culture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Having written four books and over seventy articles, he has taught at Brigham Young University (emeritus associate professor), the University of California at Berkeley (associate professor), and the University of Maryland, University College. Dr. Grandstaff is currently a fellow of the James MacGregor Burns Institute of Strategic Leadership, College Park.Alexandra Fidyk, Ph.D., serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Jungian Studies. A past President of the Jungian Society of Scholarly Studies and now joint editor of Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place, Fidyk is a Certified Jungian Psychotherapist, an Integrated Body Psychotherapist, a Constellation & Family System therapist, and a lover of horses, cats, and nature.

Introduction: Foundations of the Teacher’s Sense of Calling (Cliff)Chapter One: Five Psychospiritual Thinkers of the 20th Century and What They Tell Us About the Teacher’s Sense of Calling (Cliff)Chapter Two: Jung: The Essentials (Cliff)Chapter Three: Individuation and Vocation in the Second Half of Life (Cliff)Chapter Four: Indivduation, the “Vocatus” and Teaching (Mark)Chapter Five: Of Archetypes and Journeys: Case Studies (Mark)Chapter Six: “The University of the Waves”: An Encounter for Archetypal Reflectivity (Alexandra)Conclusion: Reclaiming the Fire (Cliff)Appendix AAppendix BAppendix CAbout the Authors