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[...]... numerous scholarly articles and fourteen books—ten prose and four poetry (four of which were published posthumously)—reflections, both scholarly and personal, on subjects like evolution, the natural world, anthropology and archaeology, the history of science, and literature But he became a professional scholar and academic only by chance As his autobiographical writing reveals and in a sense all of his... symbol of a tree can answer man’s perpetual questions about illusion and reality, life and death, innocence and maturity, the near and the far In a tree it is impossible to distinguish “the dancer from the dance,” or being from becoming, and all opposites become united—even nearness and distance In answer to the child’s question and is not the child an avatar of Eiseley’s own young tree-planting self?—Eiseley’s... in The Night Country (1971, p 201) English, and consequently creative writing, were for him such subjects Yet, as Carlisle (1983) points out in a biographical study of the author’s development as a writer, Eiseley was a published poet and short story writer as early as the 1930s, long before he was a scholar and a scientist, and in a sense he remained a creative writer who discovered in the insights... stranger who wandered about his neighborhood In despair, disoriented without the tree which had for so long centered him in the world and in time, Eiseley nostalgically recalled his father’s words at the time of the tree’s first planting: “We’ll plant a tree here, son, and we’re not going to move any more And when you’re an old, old man you can sit under it and think how we planted it here, you and me together.”... approach Lavery, Hanchett Hanson, and Brower each use the case study to explore an aspect of the work of a highly creative individual David Lavery studies the essays and poetry of the American anthropologist, historian of science and writer Loren Eiseley and the latter’s goal to feel at home when he is away from home Lavery discusses some central metaphors in Eiseley’s thought and draws parallels between... approach is that, in considering the creative thought and work of a preeminently creative person, it is the person’s uniqueness that brings him or her to our attention in the first place The discovery, novelty, breakthrough or change of paradigm represented by the person’s ideas and products is unlike those of anyone else It follows that in order to deepen our understanding of the development of the person’s... lives of the participants Susan Rostan uses Gruber’s work on morality and creativity as a takeoff point to examine extraordinary moral behavior in children of elementary and high school age and traces aspects of its developmental course across these age groups Rostan includes teachers’ perceptions of the extraordinary moral behavior they witnessed and discusses the importance of teachers’ potential roles... DAVID LAVERY “rejoins at one extreme the history of the world and at the other the history of myself [unveiling] the shared motivations of one and the other at the same moment” (1955, p 51)—his grasp of literary form, his understanding of the expressive potential of the concealed essay, however, became more and more sure But his fusion of science and art brought about more than a mastery of technique In... Eiseley’s understanding of the connectedness of art and science made him an outspoken critic of the dichotomy of the “two cultures.” In an essay specifically addressed to Snow’s (1959) conception, for example, he noted that “today’s secular disruption between the creative aspect of art and that of science is a barbarism that would have brought lifted eyebrows in a Cro-Magnon cave” (1978, p 271), and as a writer... controlling metaphor for Eiseley’s own life and for his understanding of human longing as well James Joyce read twenty four hours in the lives of Leopold and Molly Bloom, Stephen Dedalus and Dublin, as a reenactment in modern dress of the epic’s basic morphology; Loren Eiseley saw not just his own life but mankind’s as versions of the Odyssey’s mythic tale of a voyage out and back A myth, Levi-Strauss has taught . APPROACHES TO THE SELF Edited by Benjamin Lee and Gil G. Noam EDUCATION, ARTS, AND MORALITY: Creative Journeys Edited by Doris B. Wallace FRANTZ FANON AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OPPRESSION Hussein Abdilahi. email=yyepg@msn.com Reason: I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document Date: 2005.08.11 16:10:51 +08'00' EDUCATION, ARTS, AND MORALITY Creative Journeys PATH IN PSYCHOLOGY Published in. HISTORY: The Making of a Scientific Psychology Edited by Robert W. Rieber and David K. Robinson EDUCATION, ARTS, AND MORALITY Creative Journeys Edited by Doris B. Wallace New York, New York KLUWER ACADEMIC