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About the Journal
Purpose of the Holistic Education Review:
The Holistic Education Review (HER) Journal publishes two online, open-access journal issues per year and conducts additional educational activities for the holistic education community to enhance and broaden the scholarship of holistic education. We envision a holistic educational movement dedicated to the wellbeing and uplifting of human spirit on behalf of all life.
History
The Holistic Education Review (HER) is the merging of two streams of academic publications on holistic education:The Holistic Education Review (which later became Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, andThe Holistic Educator Newsletter (HEN). While merging these streams together, HER is also the birth of a new publication: The Holistic Education Review journal.
The first of these publications originated in 1988 when Ron Miller founded the original quarterly journal, Holistic Education Review and became the journal’s Editor. This journal was a repository for scholarly research in the emerging field of holistic education. After four years, Ron handed over editorial duties to Jeffrey Cane and publishing duties to Charles Jakiela. The HER changed its name to Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice. Later, William Crain became Editor, and this journal folded in 2015.
The second of these publications, The Holistic Educator Newsletter, began in 1991 as part of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development’s (ASCD) Wholistic Education Network. Jack Miller served as Editor from 1996 until 2011, when Susan Schiller and Gary Babiuk assumed the editorial roles. Throughout the history of HEN, the newsletter has been published twice a year, Spring and Fall.
In the summer of 2020, as Susan and Gary retired, Paul Freedman, Laurel Tien, and Renee Owen assumed the editorial role of HEN, and evolved the publication into the open source publication that is now the Holistic Education Review. Annie Rappeport has since joined the team as production editor, Emilie McGeary as associate production editor, and several student editors and interns from Southern Oregon University.
The current editorial team is pleased to have brought these two streams together and to have both publications’ founders Jack Miller and Ron Miller involved on our Advisory Board. The new Holistic Education Review provides both a place for peer-reviewed scholarship as well as a hub for community members’ networking needs.
The mission of the Holistic Education Review is to:
The mission of the Holistic Education Review is to enhance and broaden the scholarship of holistic education, lift up diverse and emerging voices of holistic education practice, and connect the holistic education community.
Journal ISSN 2833-2970
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Announcements
Current Issue
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): Fall 2025
Published:
2025-11-24
Notes from the Co-editors
Featured Articles
Peer-Reviewed Submissions
Community Voices: Applications of holistic education worldwide
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Journal ISSN 2833-2970
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