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Transcendental learning
\"Transcendental Learning\" explores the educational views of Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody, and Thoreau. It highlights holistic education, emphasizing the whole child, happiness, interconnectedness with nature, and environmental education. Their vision contrasts with today's factory-like schooling approach.
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Educating for wisdom and compassion
Blending philosophy, research, and three decades of practice, the author offers an engaging discussion of essential principles of timeless learning, including attention, contemplation, connection, participation, responsibility, wholeness, and joy. Educators in today's schools can apply these principles, models, and methods to inform instruction in their own classrooms and teaching practices. Some of the benefits timeless learning can bring include: (1) Helping students develop deep joy, wholeness, awe and wonder, and a sense of purpose; (2) Improving attention, alertness, perception, and memory; and (3) Using meditation and contemplation to help reduce stress, anxiety, heart rate, and blood pressure. This book is divided into three parts: (1) Timeless Learning: Definitions and Fundamentals; (2) Timeless Learning: Processes and Practices; and (3) Timeless Learning: Perspectives, Examples, and Outcomes. A bibliography and an index conclude the book.
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Education and the soul : toward a spiritual curriculum
This book addresses how the soul can be nourished in educational settings, exploring the nature of the soul and offering teaching/learning approaches that can be used to nurture the development of students' souls. The book also examines how institutions such as schools have souls and what can be done to care for a school's spiritual life. After a foreword, \"The Soul as Educator\" (Thomas Moore), Part 1, \"Exploring Soul,\" presents the first three chapters: (1) \"Education and the Soul,\" (2) \"Conceptions of the Soul,\" and (3) \"Love and Work.\" Part 2, \"Nurturing Soul,\" includes chapters 4-9: (4) \"Curriculum for the Inner Life,\" (5) \"Arts Education and the Soul,\" (6) \"Earth and the Soul,\" (7) \"The Soulful School,\" (8) \"The Soulful Teacher,\" and (9) \"Change and the Soul.\" (Contains approximately 125 references.) (SM)
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Buddhist voices in school : how a community created a Buddhist education program for state schools
Using case studies of Buddhist classes in primary schools, Smith shows how a community adapted Buddha-Dharma to fit with contemporary education. The book describes how Social and Emotional Learning, inquiry and experiential approaches to education fit well with the intentions of Buddhism.
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