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Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds

The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II

by Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones, Anne Chodakowski, Julia Cote, Joyce M. Dutcher, Kieran Egan, Ginny Esch, Brenda Gladstone, David Jardine, Kathryn L. Jenkins, Gillian C. Judson0, Dixie K. Keyes1, Beverly J. Klug2, Chris Lasher-Zwerling3, Teresa Leavitt4, Shaun Murphy5, Jacqueline Sack6, Kym Stewart7, Madalina Tanase8, Kip Téllez9, Sandra Wasko-Flood0, Sharon Friesen1, Patricia T. Whitfield2, Terrell M. Peace3, Cheryl J. Craig4 ...

Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds ... Read more

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Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds
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In Praise of Radiant Beings

A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology

by David W. Jardine ...

Series series Current Perspectives on Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Education
This text is a collection of essays by noted curriculum scholar and philosopher of education, David W. Jardine. It ranges over twenty-five years of work with teachers and students in schools. The main purpose of these essays is to provide teachers with new ways of thinking about their circumstances that side step some of the panic and exhaustion that is all too typical of many school settings. ... Read more

$54.99 USD

This text is a collection of essays by noted curriculum scholar and philosopher of education, David W. Jardine. It ranges over twenty-five years of work with teachers and students in schools. The main purpose of these essays is to provide teachers with new ways of thinking about their circumstances that side step some of the panic and exhaustion that is all too typical of many school settings.
... Read more
"Why Study for A Future We Won't Have?"

Commiserations and Encouragement for Ecologically Sorrowful Times

by David W. Jardine, William F. Pinar ...

Series Book 62 - Complicated Conversation
"Why Study for A Future We Won’t Have?" is was a sign carried by a student at a protest at a local school board. It provided the motivation for this collection. Herein are philosophical, poetic and practical essays that question the image of education we have all inherited, and provide encouragement, commiserations and examples of a more ecologically sound understanding of the living disciplines ... Read more

$56.99 USD

"Why Study for A Future We Won’t Have?" is was a sign carried by a student at a protest at a local school board. It provided the motivation for this collection. Herein are philosophical, poetic and practical essays that question the image of education we have all inherited, and provide encouragement, commiserations and examples of a more ecologically sound understanding of the living disciplines
... Read more
Curriculum in Abundance

by David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete classroom events. The detailed classroom examples and careful philosophical explorations illustrate ... Read more

$68.99 USD

In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete classroom events. The detailed classroom examples and careful philosophical explorations illustrate
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Mastery’s Paradox

Making Friends with Strangeness in a More-Than-Human World

by David W. Jardine, Jodi Latremouille, Tanya Behrisch ...

Series Book 2 - Ecological Pedagogy, Curriculum and Scholarship
Often equated with control and domination, mastery, if left unchecked, leads to annihilation and colonization of otherness. Mastery is also evident in intellectual humility, in conceding that humans will only ever have a partial understanding of the universe. This partiality is a gift. Our greatest teacher, the Earth, shows ecological mastery independent of human minds. Early modern Westerners, ... Read more

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Often equated with control and domination, mastery, if left unchecked, leads to annihilation and colonization of otherness. Mastery is also evident in intellectual humility, in conceding that humans will only ever have a partial understanding of the universe. This partiality is a gift. Our greatest teacher, the Earth, shows ecological mastery independent of human minds. Early modern Westerners,
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Speaking with a Boneless Tongue

by David W. Jardine, David W. Jardine ...

Series Book 1 - Ecological Pedagogy, Curriculum and Scholarship
This book, originally self-published in 1992, is a philosophical meditation on ecological pedagogy and its sources. It has a new introduction and epilogues by the author that detail how it remains relevant to those interested in unearthing the sources of our ecological sorrows and gives threads of reassurance on how to step away from those inheritances. ... Read more

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This book, originally self-published in 1992, is a philosophical meditation on ecological pedagogy and its sources. It has a new introduction and epilogues by the author that detail how it remains relevant to those interested in unearthing the sources of our ecological sorrows and gives threads of reassurance on how to step away from those inheritances.
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Ecological Pedagogy, Buddhist Pedagogy, Hermeneutic Pedagogy

Experiments in a Curriculum for Miracles

by Jackie Seidel, David W. Jardine ...

Series Book 452 - Counterpoints
This book explores three interrelated roots of scholarly work that have a supportive and elaborative affinity to authentic and engaging classroom inquiry: ecological consciousness, Buddhist epistemologies, philosophies and practices, and interpretive inquiry or «hermeneutics». Although these three roots originate outside of and extend far beyond most educational literature, understanding them can ... Read more

$43.99 USD

This book explores three interrelated roots of scholarly work that have a supportive and elaborative affinity to authentic and engaging classroom inquiry: ecological consciousness, Buddhist epistemologies, philosophies and practices, and interpretive inquiry or «hermeneutics». Although these three roots originate outside of and extend far beyond most educational literature, understanding them can
... Read more
Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning

Thinking the World Together

by David W. Jardine ...

This book is about an ecological-interpretive image of "the basics." Essays detailing everyday, lived events in classroom life are presented to help readers see beneath the surface ordinariness of these events to uncover and examine the underlying complex and contested meanings they contain. Readers are invited to imagine what would happen to our understanding of teaching and learning if we ... Read more

$76.99 USD

This book is about an ecological-interpretive image of "the basics." Essays detailing everyday, lived events in classroom life are presented to help readers see beneath the surface ordinariness of these events to uncover and examine the underlying complex and contested meanings they contain. Readers are invited to imagine what would happen to our understanding of teaching and learning if we
... Read more
More than Words

Navigating the Complex World of Communication

by Natalie Hyde, Valerie Sherrard ...

Illustrated by David Jardine ...

Maybe you’ve never thought about it, but you are constantly communicating, and with more than just words. Body language, hand gestures, facial expressions — they all have a lot to say. Are you aware of the silent signals you may be sending? How do you read verbal and nonverbal cues from other people?Through this illustrated book, you will learn how to communicate effectively — virtually and in ... Read more

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Maybe you’ve never thought about it, but you are constantly communicating, and with more than just words. Body language, hand gestures, facial expressions — they all have a lot to say. Are you aware of the silent signals you may be sending? How do you read verbal and nonverbal cues from other people?Through this illustrated book, you will learn how to communicate effectively — virtually and in
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On the Pedagogy of Suffering

Hermeneutic and Buddhist Meditations

Edited by David W. Jardine, Christopher Gilham, Graham McCaffrey ...

Series Book 464 - Counterpoints
This text articulates how and why suffering can be pedagogical in character and how it is often key to authentic and meaningful acts of teaching and learning. This is an ancient idea from the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus (c. 525 BCE) – pathei mathos or «learning through suffering». In our understandable rush to ameliorate suffering at every turn and to consider every instance of it as an error to ... Read more

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This text articulates how and why suffering can be pedagogical in character and how it is often key to authentic and meaningful acts of teaching and learning. This is an ancient idea from the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus (c. 525 BCE) – pathei mathos or «learning through suffering». In our understandable rush to ameliorate suffering at every turn and to consider every instance of it as an error to
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The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature

by Alan Jackson, Alex Lichtenstein, Alexander Macaulay, Angela Pulley, Anna Holloway, Barbara Wade, Brian Ferguson-Avery, Bruce Clayton, Carey Olmstead Shellman, Carl Weeks, Carlos Dews, Carmine Palumbo, Carol Andrews, Catherine Badura, Charlotte Pfeiffer, Clayton Morton, Craig Lloyd, Dana F. White, Darren Grem, David B. Parker, David Des Jardines, David Payne, David Rachels, Dede Yow, Derrick P. Alridge, Don Rhodes, Edna Acosta-Belen, Edwin T. Arnold, Francis Ticknor Mallard, Gary Kerley, Gary M Fink, Greg Lisby, Herbert Denmark, Herbert Shippey, Hubert H. McAlexander, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, James C. Cobb, James J. Lorence, James Murphy, Jan Whitt, Jane Thomas, Janet Gabler-Hover, Jarrod Atchison, John Kirk, John Mcleod, Joy Mallard, June Seese, Kay Beck, Keith Hulett, Kelly Gerald, Kenneth Janken, Kim Purcell, Lamar York, Leonard Ray Teel, Lesa Corrigan, Mae Claxton, Matthew Mancini, Megan Kate Nelson, Michael E. Price, Michael Jordan, Michael O'Dwyer, Miriam Terry, Philip Lee Williams, Qiana Whitted, R. Bruce Bickley Jr., Renee Pearman, Robert Hamblin, Robin Ogier Warren, Sam Prestridge, Sandra Hughes, Sarah Gordon, Scott Romine, Stephen Corey, Steven Harvey, Susan Henry, Suzanne Sowinska, Ted Spivey, Ted Wadley, Thomas Cooksey, Thomas L. McHaney, Valerie Frazier, Valerie Levy, Wayne Mixon, William Starr, Yi-Hsuan Tso ...

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present ... Read more

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Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present
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The Ecological Heart of Teaching

Radical Tales of Refuge and Renewal for Classrooms and Communities

Edited by Jackie Seidel, David W. Jardine ...

Series Book 478 - Counterpoints
The Ecological Heart of Teaching is a collection of writings by teachers about their life in classrooms. Reflecting over three years of collective work, it illustrates how teachers, parents, and students can avoid some of the distractions and panic endemic to many schools, allowing them to focus thoughtfully on rigorous, beautiful work. It draws on ecological thinking, Buddhism, and hermeneutics ... Read more

$55.99 USD

The Ecological Heart of Teaching is a collection of writings by teachers about their life in classrooms. Reflecting over three years of collective work, it illustrates how teachers, parents, and students can avoid some of the distractions and panic endemic to many schools, allowing them to focus thoughtfully on rigorous, beautiful work. It draws on ecological thinking, Buddhism, and hermeneutics
... Read more

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