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Enchanted Chanting: Experiencing Peace and Purity in the High School Classroom
Introduction Is it possible to give my stressed out students an undeniable experience of inner peace in a group setting? This thought motivated my recent experiment to bring chanting into an elective religion course that I teach at HKIS called … Continue reading
The Refugee Run and “White Helmets:” The Deep Impact of Experiential Learning
Introduction It is a truism that “experience is the best teacher,” and so it is with Humanities I in Action, our cornerstone social conscience course at HKIS, that the second most powerful lesson in the curriculum (after the Foshan orphanage … Continue reading
Waking Up to the Vertical Dimension: Initial Student Reflections on “Spiritual Explorations”
One of the first meetings of the new “Spiritual Explorations” team in spring, 2017. This entry shares the new SPEX curriculum that emerged from our collective work, the first unit that we have just completed, and an analysis of students’ … Continue reading
“Dealing with the Accuser: Befriending Your Inner Critic” by Sangeeta Bansal and Marty Schmidt
All of us have a running stream of voices that direct critique inwards, which when well-managed can serve us well. However, for many students these voices become far too powerful, leaving them with low self-regard. In this blog entry guest … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, depression, happiness, human nature, instructional strategies, meditation, spiritual practice, wisdom
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Education’s Most Needed Reform: An Orientation to the Universe
This stunning image of the Buddha from the Golden Temple in Dambulla, Sri Lanka communicates the truth that spiritual growth is often associated with luminosity – which I experienced, strangely enough, when grading my final World Religions papers earlier this … Continue reading
Did We Make A Difference? Action Research of a Teaching for Empowerment Program in South India
Introduction For the last seven years HKIS students have come to our two sister schools, Concordia-Ambur and Concordia-Pernambut, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to implement a “Teaching for Empowerment” curriculum developed by our students. Once again we … Continue reading
Four Instructional Strategies to Teach for Social Conscience
As part of Humanities I in Action course, Aidan, Leslie, Lawrence, and Isabelle and myself took a trip to Concordia Children’s Services in Manila as part of their Personal Action Project in grade 9, as you can see in this … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Quinn, instructional strategies, Ray Kurzweil, social conscience education
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