Arrows Tipped with Flowers

Threshold Theory for Transformative Learning

Author: Julie Geredien

A vital multi-dimensional approach to a contemporary movement in education

Cloth – $125

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Paper – $32

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eBook – $19.95

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Publication Date

Paperback: 06/16/2026
Cloth: 06/16/2026

Series: Transformations: Womanist, Feminist, and Indigenous Studies

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About the Book

How can learning at the threshold change us and our world? Julie Geredien introduces an approach to transformative learning that draws on a wide range of cultural and disciplinary viewpoints.

Threshold theory challenges unexamined mental habits and exposes absolutisms that hold social order by impeding the comprehension process. As those learning at the threshold approach transition and the unknown, they participate in transformations that illuminate hidden developmental patterns and ecological relationships. Geredien’s threshold theorizing brings together realities at the heart of creativity, relational worldview, and anti-oppression work to forge the philosophical and psychological foundations necessary to reshape policies and practices.

Innovative and expansive, Arrows Tipped with Flowers reveals the psychology of integrity that underpins truly global learning and explains the need to develop more inclusive and reflective approaches to knowledge formation.

About the Author

Julie Geredien is an independent scholar, educator, and performing artist.

Reviews

“After reading every sentence of Arrows Tipped with Flowers, I went back and created seven pages of quotes from it for future citations. This is how powerfully Geredien's words moved me as I read and contemplated her almost poetic analysis of the many aspects of ‘threshold learning’ she offers. Most, if not all, of her ideas and interpretations of diverse authors resonated with the deep truths of our original Nature-based worldview, but in ways that allow everyone to awaken to the joyful awareness of who we really are. This is truly a remarkable book.”
—Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), author Point of Departure: Returning to Our More Authentic Worldview for Education and Survival