Table of Contents

* Foreword, Nel Noddings * Prologue: Education for the 21st Century * Acknowledgments Part One: Partnership Education: The Basics * 1. Reconstructing Education: Basic Building Blocks * A journey of discovery * Nurturing childrens humanity * The partnership and dominator possibilities * Partnership process * Partnership content * Partnership structure * Schools as communities of learning * The partnership and dominator continuum * 2. Refocusing and Reframing Education: The Basic Design * Partnership and dominator values * Partnership and dominator structures * Partnership and dominator narratives * Partnership and dominator priorities * Partnership and dominator relations * The partnership curriculum loom and learning tapestry * Weaving the future: partnership schools * Six keys to partnership education Part Two: Reweaving the Educational Tapestry: The Vertical and Horizontal Threads * 3. Beginnings: From the Stars to Us * The unfolding drama * The emergence and evolution of our universe * A more balanced view of evolution * Humans and other primates * The evolution of love and empathy * Love and being human * 4. Our Human Adventure: Patterns and Possibilities * Two views of our cultural origins * The old stone age * The first farmers * The metamorphosis of mythand reality * From prehistory to history * The hidden patterns of history * The industrial or modern age * The postmodern age * Two possible futures * Maintaining domination * Creating partnership * 5. From Counting to Current Events: Making the Three R's Meaningful * The life sciences * Math * Art and art history * U.S. history * Literature * Language * The humanities * Current events * 6. Learning and Living: Interweaving Student Interests and Concerns * The mass media * Our bodies * Love and relationships * Sexuality * Self-regulation and life-planning * Our living planet * Six keys to the vertical and horizontal threads * Epilogue: Our Children's Future * Moving toward partnership education * Moving toward a partnership culture * The partnerships school of the future * Additional Resources * Sample Curriculum Materials and Handouts * More Curriculum Materials and Handouts * More on Books and Videos * Appendix A: Sample Curriculum Materials and Handouts * Appendix B: More on Books and Videos * Appendix C: More Curriculum Materials and Handouts * Endnotes * List of Illustrations * Bibliography * Index

About the Author

Riane Eisler is best known as the author of the international bestseller The Chalice and the Blade (Harper & Row, 1987). Her other works include Sacred Pleasure (HarperCollins, 1995), The Partnership Way (Holistic Education Press, 1998), and most recently her fictionalized memoir of growing up in Havana, Cuba, as a refugee from the Nazis, The Gate (iuniverse.com). Dr. Eisler is president of the centre for Partnership Studies, keynotes conferences around the world, and lives with her husband in the Monterey Peninsula.