Add to ORKGEvery institution of higher education serves in some measure as a community of imagination in which every professor is potentially a spiritual guide and every syllabus a confession of faith (Parks, p. 159). In a somewhat radically-inspired foundations of education classroom, I seek to stimulate thinking, and questioning a little philosophical wondering and wandering - when I toss-out the statement that teaching is a spiritual journey – as is life itself.
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Original Minds paints a poignant and thought-provoking portrait of what it’s like to learn and think...
There isn’t much room for dissenters in public education today – whether they are respectful or not....
In April, 2002, a three judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court handed down a ruling that overturn...
The author reflects on his experience and discusses problems in teaching a course about spirituality...
We speak only for having been called, called by what there is to say, and yet we learn and hear what...
By intertwining new math concepts with important and relevant social issues, teachers can empower st...
This dissertation focuses on the school desk in order to awaken peripheral vision of classroom ecolo...
The central focus of my work over the past 30 years has been to struggle with two overarching and re...
Recently, a colleague talked with me about a field observation she had conducted the day before, an ...
To move from a “model of scholarship where students are treated as passive vessels to be filled, to ...
In describing “the schools our children deserve,” Alfie Kohn focuses on “moving beyond traditional c...
This is a particularly challenging time for public education. There has been a coordinated, incessan...
This article was published as Being ethically minded: Practising the scholarship of teaching and lea...
In 2002 the term “dispositions” entered the vocabulary of teacher education with a vengeance when th...
This paper explores students’ resistance to schooling and attempts to identify some of the factors c...
Original Minds paints a poignant and thought-provoking portrait of what it’s like to learn and think...
There isn’t much room for dissenters in public education today – whether they are respectful or not....
In April, 2002, a three judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court handed down a ruling that overturn...