Using insights from  Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform  education and other fields.Jazz, America’s original art form,  can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique  emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and  societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W.  Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by  the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related  practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming  shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and  practical, the book uses the emergent worldview known as Integral Theory to  discuss the consciousness at the heart of jazz and the new models and  perspectives it offers. On a more personal level, the author provides examples  of his own involvement in educational reform. His design of the first  curriculum at a mainstream educational institution to incorporate a significant  meditation and consciousness studies component grounds a radical new vision

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