Episode 6: Tobin Hart

Meetings With Remarkable Educators

In our 6th episode, Tobin Hart and host Ba Luvmour explore the overlap of psychology and education, tracing the productive outlines of awareness and social-emotional learning. Find this episode on iTunes and subscribe to receive future episodes! Read the full transcript of Episode 5 here.

Tobin Hart, Ph.D. serves as Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. He is co-founder of the ChildSpirit Institute, a nonprofit educational and research hub exploring and nurturing the spirituality of children and adults. His work explores human consciousness especially at the nexus of psychology, spirituality, and education. His book, The Secret Spiritual World of Children has helped to validate and highlight the innate spiritual life of young people. Two books explicitly on Holistic Education are The Integrative Mind: Transformative Education for a World on Fire and From Information to Transformation: Education for the Evolution of Consciousness.

• http://childspirit.org/
• http://thefourvirtues.com/ serves as a kind of field guide to growing the inner life. It includes a spiritual assessment matrix.
• https://www.westga.edu/academics/coss/psychology50.php is one of the most radical and integrative Psychology departments in the country, having a fifty-year tradition beginning with humanistic and transpersonal psychologies and extending into critical psychology and more.