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Counterpoints eBook Series

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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

    $60.56 CAD

  • 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

    $47.33 CAD

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  • Greening of the Self

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    The premise of Greening of the Self is that we are not individuals separate from the world. Instead we are always "co-arising" or co-creating the world, and we cannot escape the consequence of what we do to the environment. Joanna Macy's innovative writing beautifully demonstres that by broadening our view of what constitutes "self" we can cut through our dualistic views and bring about the ... Read more

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  • Ensouling Language

    On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer's Life

    by Stephen Harrod Buhner ...
    The first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form• Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction• Develops processes to reliably induce the dreaming state from which all writing comes• Teaches the skill of analogical thinking that is the core perceptual tool for writers• Explores the subtle techniques of powerful writing, ... Read more

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  • The Holistic Curriculum

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    by John P. Miller ...
    Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience - connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between individual and community, and between the personal self and the transpersonal self.First published in 1988, The Holistic Curriculum examines the philosophical, psychological, and social foundations of holistic education, outlining ... Read more

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  • After Me

    An Essay

    by Christopher Young, Steven Bednikoff ...
    The human being, homo sapiens... A unique species that has hauled its way onto the top of the food chain and now dominates the near entirety of the Earth's ecosystems. What is life like at the top? Do we enjoy the fruits of our labour? Looking at things with a clear gaze, we seem to have replaced the struggle for survival with a struggle for existence: a desire to perform, a desire for self, a ... Read more

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  • Darwin, Dogen, and the Extremophile Choice

    Fifty Short Essays on What it Means to be Human in the Natural World

    by Ken Christenson ...
    Series series Second Edition 2022
    This twenty-first century deep philosophy of Humans and Nature is written with students of natural history and ecology in mind, but it will be especially relevant to those who have some interest in mindfulness/insight meditation. It supports the notion of rewilding our planet, but it also proposes that we can reclaim our authentic humanity in the process, arguing that evolutionary ecology is an ... Read more

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  • Opening Our Moral Eye: Essays, Talks & Poems Embracing Creativity & Community

    by M. C. Richards ...
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  • The Crossing Point

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  • Thinking About Thinking

    by Christopher Alan Anderson ...
    In this treatise the author looks at thinking, its impetus, structure, demise, and, most importantly, its revitalization so necessary for our survival. "The essential task that faces us today is in dispensing this knowledge of the creative process of male and female individualization and unification so that we truly know ourselves as male or female and that we together do comprise the one creative ... Read more

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    by Yuriko Saito ...
    Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. In a ground-breaking new study, Yuriko ... Read more

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