eBook Methods and Models for Education in Parapsychology (Parapsychological Monograph) ePub

Preface - This monograph is a product of a growing need for educational material in the field of parapsychology. While more and more college courses are being offered on the subject, there are no standard texts or curricula to help structure the courses. This text is intended as an invitation for dialogue on the important issue of how parapsychology might best be presented within the framework of the educational process. While teaching is a very personal matter, I have tried to present what I feel to be the problems of education in parapsychology and the most comprehensive way of overcoming the problems in an impartial manner, borrowing models from the basic foundations of the American educational system and adapting them to an educational plan based on both historical and contemporary mainstream work in parapsychology. The basic purpose of this presentation is twofold. First, it is an argument for the need for education in the field within the academic establishment and, secondly, a practical guide for those wishing to construct courses in parapsychology. The scope of the monograph has been limited to those two themes since these are the most pressing issues confronting the educational crisis within psychical research. While there are other topics germane to these central issues, such as a historical survey of university involvement, I have felt it better to omit these since they have already been adequately covered in other writings. I am grateful to the Parapsychology Foundation for making possible the publication of this study. --- Table of Contents includes: The Need For Discussion; Parapsychology and the Problems and Philosophy of Education; Some Approaches to Curricula in Parapsychology; The Teaching of Parapsychology; and The Future of Education in Parapsychology.