Educator Investigation Summation Table

Each of us in our group this week approached the project collaboratively yet uniquely.  We did not each conduct our research or project compilation the same.  I will attach each of our individual works in the next blog posts.  This blog post will include our summation table.

As a group, we chose to research humanistic educators.  Our research led us down the paths of four different educators, from healers to organizational behavior educators to individualism for students and teachers becoming facilitators.

Name of Educator	John Dewey
Time Period	1859-1952
Background	Philosophy of education challenged the autocratic style of teaching through uniform memorization.  Career included Civil War to Eisenhower administration-lot of social change in America
Profile	College-University of Vermont, PhD.-John Hopkins First academic job-University of Michigan 1884, University of Chicago 1894-1904, Columbus University 1904-1930.  Professor Emeritus until 1952, age 92
Contributions	Educator, author of several books spanning decades, providing a different philosophy of education than previous philosophers.
Impact	Classroom environment and learning has been adjusted to learning directed by relevancy and inclusion to/of the learner
Implications	Teachers have become facilitators of learning.  Needs of the learner are considered on an individual bases.  Notion of pragmatism and learning values being correlated to relativity to the learner adopted into practice.
Name of Educator	Chris Argyris
Time Period	1923-
Background	Rooted in organizational behavior and development of that behavior.  Some of his theories include Theory-In-Use and Single-Loop and Double-Loop Learning.
Profile	Enlisted in Signal Troops in WWII BS Psychology 1947 – Clark University MA Economics & Psychology 1949 – Kansas State University PhD in Organizational Behavior 1951 – Cornell University
Contributions	Through writing and researching, Argyris also became an influential teacher and the author of several books.
Impact	In organizational learning, each member of the organization needs to know their place in the organization.
Implications	Peoples’ connection with the organization and their role in the organization can bear the fruit of a learning experience.  In this instance, the learning is facilitate by teacher, coach, mentor or other person that helps individuals (i.e. managers, professionals and co-workers) Powerful transition of an experiential learning model to the working organization.
Name of Educator	Parker J. Palmer
Time Period	1939-
Background	His books have sold more than a half million copies and A Hidden Wholeness, was nominated for a 2005 Pulitzer Prize. In 1998, the Leadership Project, a national survey of ten thousand administrators and faculty, named him one of the thirty “most influential leaders” in higher education and one of the ten key “agenda setters” of the decade, noting that “he has inspired a generation of teachers and reformers evocative visions of community, knowing, and spiritual wholeness.” Among his numerous awards are ten honorary doctorates and several lifetime achievement awards. Two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association Major grants from the Danforth Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the Fetzer Institute. In 2011, Palmer was named an Utne Reader Visionary, one of “25 people who are changing your world.”
Profile	Palmer received his PhD in Sociology in 1970 from the University of California at Berkeley.
Contributions	Since 1977 Parker  is both  founder and senior partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal,  a small non-profit organization providing programs to help teachers, physicians, clergy and others “rejoin soul and role.” In renewing their passion for their work, reclaiming its basic values they deepen their service to others.
Impact	As a writer, speaker, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change he is considered one of the most influential senior leaders" in higher education.
Implications	Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; Good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher… But by identity and integrity I do not mean only our noble features, or the good deeds we do, or the brave faces we wear to conceal our confusions and complexities. Identity and integrity have as much to do with our shadows and limits, our wounds and fears, as with our strengths and potentials. Identity lies in the intersection of the diverse forces that make up my life, and Integrity lies in relating to those forces in ways that bring me wholeness and life rather than fragmentation and death. (p. 13 The Courage To Teach)
Name of Educator	Rachel N. Remen
Time Period	1938-
Background	Rachel Naomi Remen claims to have grown up in two worlds. One was the world of her grandfather an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, who engaged her in a search for what is Real.  The other world was of medicine.  Among her grandfather’s children were three nurses and nine physicians.  “When I was young I thought you became an adult and a doctor as part of the same process” (p xxxi Kitchen Table Wisdom)
Profile	She holds an honorary PhD in health psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies and an honorary PhD in Humane Letters from John F. Kennedy University Rachel is the recipient of many professional awards and three honorary degrees. She has been the invited graduation speaker at Dartmouth Medical School, Yale School of Medicine, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Tuoro School of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, The University of Arizona School of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, UCSF School of Nursing as well as many white coat ceremonies.
Contributions	My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging, Riverhead Books, 2000, is a national bestseller In 2008 she was recognized with the Bravewell Award as one of the earliest Pioneers of Holistic and Integrative Medicine; and her national curriculum in professionalism for medical students, The Healer’s Art was awarded the STFM Innovative Educational Program of 2008 by the Board of Directors of The Society for Teachers of Family Medicine
Impact	As a master story-teller and public speaker, she has spoken to thousands of people throughout the country, reminding them of the power of their humanity and the ability to use their lives to make a difference. Dr. Remen has a 48-year personal history of Crohn's disease and her work is a unique blend of the viewpoint of physician and patient.
Implications	Founded by Rachel in 1992, the Institute for the Study of Health & Wellness’ mission is to contribute to healing the culture of health care through innovative educational programs and the formation of supportive communities.  Their programs provide innovative tools, practices and resources to enable health professionals to sustain their service values, their humanity and their passion for work.