Awakening the Inner Eye

Intuition in Education

by

Nell Noddings

&

Paul J. Shore

"As authors we hope that some of the exhilaration and excitement we experienced in researching and writing is caught by the reader. . . we hope this book will be the beginning of a serious dialogue on the meaning, importance, and uses of intuition, a dialogue involving not only scholars and scientists, but teachers, artists, and others who encounter intuitive processes in their daily lives.  Such a conversation is, we believe, essential if intuition is to take its place among other valuable educational concepts."                              from the Introduction by Nel Noddings & Paul J. Shore

In this classic text, Noddings and Shore give readers a conceptual history of intuition, examining intuition in religion, art, psychology, and philosophy.  In addition, they search for definitions of intuition and analyze its connection to other related terms, including receptivity, consciousness, and will. Awakening the Inner Eye discusses the establishment, maintenance, and enhancement of intuitive modes, and how these efforts are related to both cognitive and affective education.  The authors are particularly interested in intuition within the domain of the teacher-student relationship and how teaching may enhance both moral and intellectual sensitivity in students.

1999/258 pp./paper $32.95/ISBN:  1-891928-00-7