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In Praise of Radiant Beings - A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology (Hardcover)
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In Praise of Radiant Beings - A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology (Hardcover)
Series: Current Perspectives on Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Education
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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. Using ideas and images from Buddhism, ecological
thinking, and hermeneutics, the author shows how these lineages
help with the practical work of thinking and acting differently
regarding the knowledge entrusted to teachers and students in
schools. It offers the image of living fields of relations as an
alternative to the fragmented, industrial?assembly machinations
that drive much curriculum thinking and practice. It roots this
alternative in solid scholarly work, both inside and outside of the
orbit of educational literature. This book can provide
encouragement and example to those working in schools who have
sensed the shifting of human consciousness and conscience over the
past decades towards issues of sustainability, interrelatedness,
diversity, ancestry, ecological well?being, and dependent
co?arising. It provides solid classroom?based examples coupled with
substantial scholarly delving into the roots of such work in
long?standing streams of thinking that are born outside of the
usual orbits of educational theory and practice, but that provide
that practice with a refuge and a relief and an alternative. This
book can also provide examples to those doing graduate work in
education of how interpretive research into classrooms can be
conducted, and how this work is must be solid, well?rooted,
scholarly and meticulously thought out. It is useful as a handbook
and sourcebook for interpretive research or hermeneutic research,
and provides a wide array of sources and themes for the conduct of
such work.
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