The Soul of Learning

The Soul of Learning

Author: Mary Keator

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-29

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1000512738

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The Soul of Learning is a groundbreaking book that bridges together cultural work, contemplative practices, and ancient scriptures. Inside each chapter, readers are challenged and inspired to come face-to-face with themselves as they encounter teachers in all forms—from spiritual sages to critical theorists, from prophets to poets, from hip-hop rappers to reggae artists. This book is multifaceted and multidisciplinary. It models the essence of education by offering multiple entry points into holistic learning: somatic, aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, ethical, relational, and spiritual. The Soul of Learning embodies a pedagogical disruption in pursuit of personal sovereignty. What process must we go through to reimagine ourselves in relation to each other and the world around us? This book offers a semblance of an answer. As a way to bring the sacred into schooling, Keator and Watson courageously connect spirituality, activism, and education through curated readings, guided activities, and intentional exercises. It’s a ready-to-go syllabus and hands-on workbook all in one! Altogether this book is revelatory and provides innovative ways to teach and learn, lead and live. The Soul of Learning documents a transformative journey, through the interiority of our being into a revolutionary call for collective belonging.


Education and the Soul

Education and the Soul

Author: John P. Miller

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780791443422

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With emphasis on preparing students for jobs, standards, and achievement testing, many think that North American education has become inwardly deadening, yet this book provides a counterbalance as it offers a way to nurture the soul in classrooms and schools.


The Soul of Education

The Soul of Education

Author: Rachael Kessler

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0871203731

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Explores the spiritual dimension of education, and discusses ways to nourish the spiritual development of adolescents in public schools without violating anyone's legal rights.


The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul

The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul

Author: Simona Ginsburg

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 0262039303

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A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness—to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, “the sensitive soul”? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka propose a new theory about the origin of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the transition to basic consciousness. Using a methodology similar to that used by scientists when they identified the transition from non-life to life, Ginsburg and Jablonka suggest a set of criteria, identify a marker for the transition to minimal consciousness, and explore the far-reaching biological, psychological, and philosophical implications. After presenting the historical, neurobiological, and philosophical foundations of their analysis, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose that the evolutionary marker of basic or minimal consciousness is a complex form of associative learning, which they term unlimited associative learning (UAL). UAL enables an organism to ascribe motivational value to a novel, compound, non-reflex-inducing stimulus or action, and use it as the basis for future learning. Associative learning, Ginsburg and Jablonka argue, drove the Cambrian explosion and its massive diversification of organisms. Finally, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose symbolic language as a similar type of marker for the evolutionary transition to human rationality—to Aristotle's “rational soul.”


Re-Imagining Education

Re-Imagining Education

Author: Slattery

Publisher:

Published: 2019-03-16

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781950186051

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In this 2019 reissued collection of eighteen essays, originally inspired by the soul-deadening mandates of the "No Child Left Behind" era, Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig bring together master teachers who have served in the classroom for fifteen or more years, spanning elementary, high school, undergraduate, graduate, and adult education across multiple disciplines, to share their reflections on reviving the soul of learning.While the essays are historically tethered to a moment in time, one that witnesses a crisis in learning, the intention of the volume is not merely to react and critique, but rather, to imagine the present as an occasion to revive, revision, and renew the enchantment of learning.One might ask: what timeless and perennial qualities of excellence are germane to teaching and learning as they both serve the life of the imagination and further the cultivation of the soul? The answer rests in the essays themselves, repositories of wisdom by teachers with decades of experience in the classroom, whose only mandate was to speak their own truths that have informed thousands of learners young and old.


Habits of the Soul

Habits of the Soul

Author: Linda Perrone Rooney

Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781585955541

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In every lifetime a book comes along that can dramatically change lives--Habits of the Soul by Linda Perrone Rooney is such a book! In 40 days it can transform lives because it attends to the soul inside, a person's deepest inner being. It touches the very heart and spirit of readers and pays attention to their intimate relationship with God. Habits of the Soul embraces spiritual habits, ones that can completely transform ordinary daily actions into actions done on purpose.


Learning the Language of the Soul

Learning the Language of the Soul

Author: Andrew D Mayes

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2016-05-09

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0814647510

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How can we describe to others what is happening to us on our spiritual journey? How can we depict the spiritual road that we are taking—experiences of prayer, transitions that we travel through, impediments that we face—and externalize into words the interior experiences? In this spiritual lexicon, Andrew Mayes explores creative and inspirational metaphors to equip anyone wanting to communicate effectively about their faith or life of prayer. Learning the Language of the Soul is a handbook that will prove indispensable to spiritual directors, evangelists, and all sharing in the witness of the church today. It will loosen our tongues as we discover images from both the classic Christian tradition and contemporary culture that help us express and develop a spiritual literacy by which we share with others the joys and struggles of the inner life.


The Soul of Higher Education

The Soul of Higher Education

Author: Margaret Benefiel

Publisher: Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Resear

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781641136969

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"This volume contributes to an understanding of the importance and implications of a contemplative grounding for higher education. It is the fourth in a series entitled Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research and Application, which is intended to be an authoritative and comprehensive series in the field. The volume consists of chapters written by noted scholars from both Eastern and Western traditions that shed light on these questions"--


Learning to Walk in the Dark

Learning to Walk in the Dark

Author: Barbara Brown Taylor

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1848256175

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In this long awaited follow-up to the best-selling An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor explores ‘the treasures of darkness’ that the Bible speaks about. What can we learn about the ways of God when we cannot see the way ahead, are lost, alone, frightened, not in control or when the world around us seems to have descended into darkness?